Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer)
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:06:22 +0200
> 
> >> Though that doesn't seem to be an absolute requirement for letting
> >> libguile compile Elisp, since it can just treat Elisp strings as a
> >> separate data type, as GuileEmacs currently does.
> >
> > That'd be an inconvenience, since it will require a translation layer
> > between Emacs strings and Guile strings, and that will hamper
> > performance.
> 
> I'm not sure in what situations such a translation would be necessary.

When we need to use Guile APIs from Emacs.  That's one of the
advantages of using Guile: that it implements a lot of functionality
which it would be good to have in Emacs.