Mikael Djurfeldt writes: > This is wonderful news! :-) > > I've actually tried out guile-emacs recently. What would be wonderful to > have is some kind of simple "map" over what has been done so far (e.g. the > large-scale structure of the code and what the relationship between the > elisp and guile interpreter currently is). Maybe that exists and I didn't > find it? > > Best regards, > Mikael D. > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Christopher Allan Webber < > cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > >> Heya everyone, >> >> I was at the Emacs hackathon / bug crushing event and I gave a couple >> demos that were Guile related, one showing off guile-emacs, and one >> showing off Guix's Emacs integration. So the good news is: the talk >> went super, super well (on both, but especially guile-emacs), and >> enthusiasm was high! When I showed guile-emacs live, there were some >> amazed expressions to see oh hey... this is *really* working! >> >> I also had a conversation with John Wiegley, current maintainer of >> emacs, and he said several things: >> >> - He thinks it would be *great* to have Emacs running on Scheme, a >> clear win, assuming it's integrated and runs fast and works well. >> >> - However, Guile would have to be able to make a promise: once Emacs >> ran on top of Guile, Emacs would have to be able to have say over >> anything that could end up changing actual semantics in Emacs >> (mainly, anything that would break Emacs user's source code). >> >> (I think there's an easy answer to this: guile-emacs is already >> aiming for heavy backwards compatibility and should just preserve >> that at this level.) >> >> - If we could prove that performance was better in guile-emacs, that's >> an easy way to win enthusiasm. >> >> - A good goal to work towards: all of emacs' tests should pass using >> guile-emacs. >> >> So that's all a ways off, but I'm feeling enthusiastic that it's >> possible! >> >> - Chris >> >> PS: I'd like to see bipt's elisp branch merged with master. I might try >> to help... I'm trying to learn enough to do so. However I don't have a >> lot of time, and especially not a lot of experience with compilers.. >> >>
Hello, I only know the article in emacs wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs especially the part 3 "Long Term Issues". Best Regards -- Stefan Husmann
