Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:39:32 -0700
> 
> >>>>> Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Or a more radical approach: a Lispy language, easy to learn by those who
> > already know Elisp, but which can be translated all the way to something as
> > performant as the current C code, while being capable of interacting with
> > it. This way, whenever someone needs fast code, he would use this other
> > dialect instead of writing C, or the slow Elisp (or avoiding the task
> > altogether.)
> 
> If it can leverage what the contributor already knows about Elisp, I'm all for
> it. I wonder what RMS' and Eli's reaction would be.

I just gave it.  But I don't think it matters, as long as there's no
volunteers that work on this in earnest.  We are still dreaming.  I
withhold my real reaction until I actually see some language like
that.