Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
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Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#2I guess every language needs an Emacs port to grow up.
None of those ports ever see even the tiniest beginning of something actually usable (heck, even Climacs faltered), but I'm still all for it!
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#3Not intended to be a port, but I occasionally search for an editor that is customizable in Python to the extent Emacs is.
Leo Editor (http://leoeditor.com) fits that bill. It's been around since the 90's (and the web page looks like it's from the 90's). Even though it has many users, the documentation is quite poor. If I had another life to live, I would learn it well and improve the docs - and then port over everything I like in Emacs to it.
It is sorely in need of more tutorials. You'll find some in various people's blog posts, but not enough. I know enough of it to know that it is very powerful, but not enough to use it well day-to-day.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#4I guess every language needs an Emacs port to grow up. None of those ports ever see even the tiniest beginning of something actually usable (heck, even Climacs faltered), but I'm still all for it!
I believe this is a incremental rewrite of GNU Emacs's C portions, so is probably useable with full functionality (modulo bugs) right now.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#5This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit.
Honestly, I'd rather see more progress on the Emacs Lisp/Guile migration than on a putative C/Rust migration. At least with the Guile switch, it's something that will have an obvious (and probably positive) impact on the people that use the editor.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#6This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit. Honestly, I'd rather see more progress on the Emacs Lisp/Guile migration than on a putative C/Rust migration. At least with the Guile switch, it's something that will have an obvious (and probably positive) impact on the people that use the editor.
It seems a bit rude to complain about volunteers for doing something they want to do rather than what you want them to do.
I imagine that this, for the most part, isn't even opportunity cost: the people working on it probably wouldn't be contributing to full Emacs (or the Guile effort) anyway. And this sort of effort seems like it could be an on-boarding experience to improving the original code base, e.g. in the process of porting, someone notices a bug and so submits a patch upstream, or maybe the repeated exposure to a variety of the internal components gives someone enough familiarity with them to contribute if this project peters out.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#7This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit. Honestly, I'd rather see more progress on the Emacs Lisp/Guile migration than on a putative C/Rust migration. At least with the Guile switch, it's something that will have an obvious (and probably positive) impact on the people that use the editor.
It seems a bit rude to complain about volunteers for doing something they want to do rather than what you want them to do. I imagine that this, for the most part, isn't even opportunity cost: the people working on it probably wouldn't be contributing to full Emacs (or the Guile effort) anyway. And this sort of effort seems like it could be an on-boarding experience to improving the original code base, e.g. in the pro…
It wasn't a complaint, it was an honest observation.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#8Doesn't seem to have a copyright assignment policy in place so this can't be upstreamed as is.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Co...
So opened - https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/238
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems a bit rude to complain about volunteers for doing something they want to do rather than what you want them to do. I imagine that this, for the most part, isn't even opportunity cost: the people working on it probably wouldn't be contributing to full Emacs (or the Guile effort) anyway. And this sort of effort seems like it could be an on-boarding experience to improving the original code base, e.g. in the pro…
It wasn't a complaint, it was an honest observation.
Irrelevant.
Honesty doesn't keep it from being useless stop energy.
Re: Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
#10Not intended to be a port, but I occasionally search for an editor that is customizable in Python to the extent Emacs is. Leo Editor ( http://leoeditor.com ) fits that bill. It's been around since the 90's (and the web page looks like it's from the 90's). Even though it has many users, the documentation is quite poor. If I had another life to live, I would learn it well and improve the docs - and then port over every…
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