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Jorge Javier Araya Navarro |
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Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea? |
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Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:37:10 -0600 |
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mu4e 1.3.4; emacs 27.0.50 |
El viernes 20 de septiembre del 2019 a las 1634 horas, Stefan Monnier escribió:
>> 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"
That's what I was fearing, jaja. If a feature fulfills those three requirements
maybe a discussion
about it could (hypothetically) start. Got it.
Was asking because I would like to run some experiments to scratch an itch I
have, but I did not
wanted to waste time if such thing won't be shipped with the rest of Emacs (or
not? if anything, the
thing I want to do can land on GNU ELPA I guess).
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