Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 04:38:42 +0200
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
>  Emacs Devel mailing list <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Also even if you think a package is very useful, it might not be useful to
> everyone. I would prefer to even refactor some of built-in packages into gnu
> elpa instead of having them all in Emacs.

That's not the current vision of the project.  We want all the
features that are important to have in Emacs OOTB to be bundled.  And
support for popular programming languages was always a very important
built-in feature of Emacs.

So yes, we want that to be in core, not in ELPA.