Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Wondering this. The only downside of this would be installing more
> dependencies to build Emacs, say, if someone were to do a contribution to
> Emacs core with Rust

There are two problems:
- imposing an additional dependency for those who compile Emacs (and
  potentially even for those who *use* Emacs if it requires a specific
  run-time library).
- imposing knowledge of an additional language for the maintainers.

If the feature is *very* desirable, hard to reimplement in C or Elisp,
and is optional, I guess maybe potentially it could hypothetically
be discussed?


        Stefan "who likes Rust, FWIW"