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.. > >
