Re: Unifying "foo-mode"s and "foo-ts-mode"s

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: theo@thornhill.no,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  casouri@gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:57:59 +0000
>> 
>> would this mean that the "...-ts-mode"s are to be regarded as
>> experimental demonstrations?
>
> I don't understand the question.  We provide to users _features_, not
> their implementations in terms of files and variables/functions.  So
> the symbols *-ts-mode are here to stay, and are not experimental
> demonstrations in any sense of that term, but what they do under the
> hood is up to us.

That answers my question.  The point is whether the usage of ...-ts-mode
major modes is recommended or provided with a "we reserve the right to
change anything"-like caveat, so one shouldn't rely too much on their
public interface.