Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> In this thread, we are not talking about attracting more users, we are
> talking about attracting more _developers_ for the core C code.

[...]

> As Daniel already wrote in this thread: don't underestimate the complexity
> of Emacs that has nothing to do with the implementation language. Emacs
> solves quite a few very complex problems; the solution is therefore complex,
> and will be so no matter in what language you express it. That complexity is
> IME the main obstacle for newcomers to Emacs maintenance. The rest is
> non-negligible, of course, but good engineering practice is to solve the
> main problem first, and go for the secondary one only afterwards.

> Therefore, I think efforts to improve the documentation, commentary, and
> readability of the code will yield higher gains faster than switching to
> another language.

I just want to give a huge +1 to this whole message by Eli. To anyone skimming
through this thread, it deserves a closer read.

John