Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> Something that we'd happily do as well, wouldn't we?

If it were not for how the nature of our work precludes consulting any
standards, and by extension exploiting any foreknowledge of their
implementation, then yes.

> Sorry if I'm not up-to-date with each and every component, but Firefox
> devs surely have to deal with SELinux, D-Bus, and executable formats.

How so?  And why would Firefox concern itself with XCOFF and aout, when
it doesn't support either AIX or HP-UX?

> JavaScript also has a filesystem access API.

These interfaces are very superficial and haven't been ported to even a
fragment of the systems Emacs has.

> Even if that were the case, the plan breaks as soon as we run out of
> existing active developers, if we fail to recruit enough new ones.

If that hasn't transpired in 35 years, I doubt it will in the next 35.