Re: redisplay system of emacs

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Actually, some of those languages often compile applications to code
>> that is faster than their C counterpart, as they are more
>> optimizer-friendly.
>
> But switching to a language that is significantly less widespread than
> C would mean significantly less potential contributors.

The majority of Emacs is written in Elisp.  Which is significantly less
widespread than pretty much anything else.

I don't think that in the last decade or so people contributed
non-trivial C code to Emacs without knowledge of Elisp.

-- 
David Kastrup