Guile-Emacs Relaunched
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Guile-Emacs Relaunched
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#2very important line of work
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#3One of those "Never Ever" projects. The idea appeals to me, but most of the emacs user community seems uninterested so I don't think it will ever succeed. Nonetheless, Godspeed.
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#4One of those "Never Ever" projects. The idea appeals to me, but most of the emacs user community seems uninterested so I don't think it will ever succeed. Nonetheless, Godspeed.
i am not user of emacs, but looking into as next switch.
using mainstream more structured language is good point go into emacs.
it also will lead to rewrite of some plugins. for example many rust rewrites just better c versions, but more consistent and structured. there was not reason not to rewrite these in c but better. very good for newcomers to unix world.
another point is async. i have heard that is one of problems of no async. if emacs has plan it could be intresting either doing async or properly avoiding. for me it is prove point emacs will not die with its creators.
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#5No new commits yet, just a talk about a future relaunch. Only strings performance is missing.
Gypsum https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/gypsum/ started from guile-emacs afresh, but is way behind. And with Andrea's elispjit the guile port is probably not needed at all.
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#6> integrates Emacs and Guile by providing a new Elisp implementation based on Guile's Lisp-oriented compiler tower and runtime environment
I am hoping Guile the language (scheme) also will be supported alongside elisp.
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#7One of those "Never Ever" projects. The idea appeals to me, but most of the emacs user community seems uninterested so I don't think it will ever succeed. Nonetheless, Godspeed.
i am not user of emacs, but looking into as next switch. using mainstream more structured language is good point go into emacs. it also will lead to rewrite of some plugins. for example many rust rewrites just better c versions, but more consistent and structured. there was not reason not to rewrite these in c but better. very good for newcomers to unix world. another point is async. i have heard that is one of probl…
> using mainstream more structured language is good point go into emacs.
Are you really trying to tell use that Guile Scheme is more mainstream than Emacs Lisp?
Cmon, I'm pretty sure all schemes combined don't have a fraction of programmers or libraries as elisp alone.
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#8I wish Robin luck in relaunching the guile-emacs project! I hope that this talk will help the Emacs community understand the potential and be more open to the prospect this time around.
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#9i have one question, for me emacs have only 1 major flaw (or you can call it drawback) , its slow, some extensions are very very slow , magit for me is the prime example , json-navigator is another
will this make emacs fast , i understand guile is a nicer language than elisp, but if its not significantly faster, this i think will go nowhere
(the second but minor flaw, it need better graphics, nicer ways to represent directory trees or git branches, other than ascii, but if emacs becomes fast, i can live with that)
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#10i have one question, for me emacs have only 1 major flaw (or you can call it drawback) , its slow, some extensions are very very slow , magit for me is the prime example , json-navigator is another will this make emacs fast , i understand guile is a nicer language than elisp, but if its not significantly faster, this i think will go nowhere (the second but minor flaw, it need better graphics, nicer ways to represent…
Previous attempts at guile-emacs weren't faster: fixing the impedance mismatch between elisp and guile ate all the speedup that guile would bring.
Also as a significant change since the last attempt, elisp got a proper native compiler.