Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

> In any case, Emacs can never be satisfied with the current Guile
> infrastructure for i18n.  There are too many shortcomings, some of
> them were mentioned here.  Yes, Guile can be fixed to be better in
> that area, but no one is working on that, AFAIK, and what's more
> important, lead Guile developers don't even agree Guile should move in
> that direction.  (This especially puzzles me: to have a good example
> before you and not follow it?  Emacs learned what it has now the hard
> way, have paid in blood, sweat and tears for that knowledge, and still
> Guile developers think they "know better"?  Present parties excluded,
> of course.)

My point is: Emacs can keep doing its own thing in that area.

(And I would guess that neither C++, nor Lua, nor anything else would
provide an i18n infrastructure that would satisfy Emacs out-of-the-box.)

Ludo’.