Re: Shrinking the C core

[João Távora]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:44 AM Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If Emacs will ever be "rewritten", it will not be Emacs, but a
> > text-processing system with a very different architecture and design,
> > which will take from the Emacs experience the lessons we learned and
> > implement them differently, to produce a system whose starting point
> > is closer to the needs of today's users and whose main technologies
> > are more modern from the get-go.
>
> I couldn't agree more.
>
> To me, a rewrite is quatsch, while adding CL facilities to Emacs makes a
> lot of sense.

+1

A rewrite (or somehow the ability to embed a CL runtime to run all our
existing Elisp code) is not exactly 100% quatsch, but maybe 95%.