Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:23:35 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think any language which is "better" (i.e. is known by more
> > programmers) will have the same problems.
> 
> I'll like to insist on the fact that Elisp (a paradigm of niche
> language) has plenty of contributors, while just a few people work on
> the part of Emacs which is written in that epitome of a succesful
> language which is C.
> 
> Obviously, on this case, "popular" doesn't imply "better".

I might even agree, but how does this contradict what I wrote and you
cited?

> It would be interesting to know how many new hackers the C core got on,
> say, the last 10 years, who made contributions beyond correcting the
> occassional bug which is evident on a gdb backtrace.

About 20.