Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Alexis]

Przemysław Wojnowski <address@hidden> writes:

> Recently I was going through Emacs C code and immediately one 
> thing come to my mind: "Did anyone consider rewrite it a more 
> maintainable language?" :-)
>
> Did anyone consider pros/cons of having base code in other 
> language?  AFAIK maintenance cost of C code is pretty high, 
> because the code is tangled, has no tests and the language has 
> its limits (e.g. no namespaces, no abstractions, 
> etc.). Maintaining that and adding new features will be harder 
> and harder.
>
> Having Emacs base code in a more maintainable language (maybe 
> some Scheme version?) would reduce maintenance cost over the 
> years. Also more maintainable code makes it easier for others to 
> joins and improve it.

In my experience, this suggestion comes up regularly; here's a 
brief comment i wrote on this topic about a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/2l1gp6/so_why_moving_the_code_base_of_emacs_to_another/clqp6p9


Alexis.