Claus Reinke <claus.reinke <at> talk21.com> writes: > This was followed by Ermacs, a concurrent > Emacs clone written completely in Erlang. Ermacs > is fairly complete – it has major modes for > Erlang and Scheme programming, a built-in Erlang > shell, and support for efficiently editing large > files. However, once the core editor was complete, > it was obvious that GNU Emacs has an incredibly > large set of wonderful features, and that extending > Ermacs to include “enough” of them was > completely out of the question. > The lessons learned from Ermacs lead to Distel,.. > > how is Yi going to avoid that trap?
Here's the plan for world domination: * Many features are going to be written/replicated as haskell libraries anyway, for usage as independent libraries. * Make sure gluing code is relatively easy I frankly suspect that haskell is a lot more powerful than erlang, and therefore it will be way easier to write code for Yi than Ermacs. For example, Ben Moseley has written a rudimentary Dired mode for Yi in about a week (I think), with no prior knowledge of Yi. The module is now 347 lines long (including blanks and comments) Also, I suspect haskell will become more popular than erlang, and the contributions to the respective editor of choice proportional. Cheers, JP. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe