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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161 |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:23:33 -0400 |
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> To answer your questions:
> - Electron is mostly under a free license, but is non-free, due
> to non-free blobs.
That would definitely rule it out.
> - Electron is basically Google's Chromium browser, bundled
> up as an app development platform.
> - You're going to have a lot of issues if you try making
> Emacs use Electron. For one, you're going to have to write
> a large part of the UI in JavaScript code, and then have it
> play well with C code.
I think either of these would make it technically unsuitable for
Emacs, even if it had no worse problems.
Thanks for researching the question.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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