Hello! Not sure if it’s news to you but I recently stumbled upon Per Bothner’s JEmacs, an Emacs implemented in Scheme (GNU Kawa) + Java + Elisp, where Elisp has been added as a front-end to Kawa (and it can actually run Elisp code like Towers of Hanoi unmodified, so there may be ideas to borrow):
http://jemacs.sourceforge.net/ See also this paper written in 2000: http://jemacs.sourceforge.net/JEmacs-FSM.html Excerpts: “My opinion is that Guile is not the best Scheme implementation to use for Emacs.” And then: “Using an optimizing compiler that compiles to bytecode is certainly going to be faster than Guile or Emacs's simple interpreter [...] However, there are many projects and companies working very hard on running Java bytecodes fast. [...] Another approach is to use a traditional ‘ahead-of-time’ compiler (such as the Gcc-based Gcj)”. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
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