Re: About implementing libre.js/el in Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Both will require adding primitives to Emacs C source to expose
  > urlRequest events, etc.

Can someone explain how those events work?  What do theese events do?
What code generates them?

Why does it function that way, rather than by calling Lisp directly?

  > Option 1, besides enabling libre.js, can also bring numerous existing
  > cross-browser extensions to Emacs, if we finally support a large enough
  > portion of the Web Extension API. However those extensions are
  > all written in JS and JS is worse than Elisp.

This is a bad idea, at the deepest level, because it means supporting
Emacs extensibility in two separate ways, with separate
implementations.  That would make Emacs far more complex.

We should not support Emacs extensibility in Javascript.

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