Re: New maintainer

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 05.10.2015 um 23:20 schrieb Dmitry Gutov:
> On 10/05/2015 10:02 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
[ ... ]
> > Another area we're falling behind in is the type of IDE features that 
> > are
> > taken for granted in special-purpose editing environments, such as 
> > effortless
> > code browsing, refactoring, and more interactive debugging. The 
> > things you can
> > do when editing Java and Javascript are downright impressive, and I 
> > see no
> > reason Emacs can't compete better here.
>
> That area is closer to my interests, and I'd happily see one more 
> person (or several) participate in these discussions, but preferably 
> in lower-level terms (like the details of the xref interface, or the 
> project API). So far, they've ended more in disagreement than anything 
> else, and it's pretty discouraging.

IMO rather third party libraries should be encouraged.

For example WRT Python we have already several:

the python-mode.el/pymacs/rope eco-system
emacs-for-python,
and elpy, relying on shipped python.el  and jedi/rope

AFAICS Emacs provides all to built IDEs upon. OTOH doing it requires 
special knowledge in the languages, which can't be expected from 
core-developers.

Exists related efforts at other languages.

Emacs core-developers could have a stronger role by advising them.
Strengthening communication in community seems the way to go WRT IDEs.