Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/18/2015 10:52 AM, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Total agreement! I've been wanting a Guile-based Emacs since 1998, if for no
>> other reason than that I could have used call/cc in Eshell, instead of the
>> horrendous CPS hack that exists there now.
>
> You have generators in elisp already. Wanting to use one language is,
> IMHO, a poor choice for wanting to completely swap out a language. I am
> opposed to Guilemacs, not only on technical grounds, but also because
> elisp is essential to Emacs (and not just an optional extension system),
> and I want its implementation to live alongside the rest of the Emacs
> core code.

GuileEmacs would improve Elisp.  See first two points in Overview here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

Taylan