On 02/07/2015 21:36, Greg Davidson wrote:
Is there interest in creating a Gnu Emacs Lisp Racket Language, along with the
underlying APIs (perhaps tied to DrRacket) sufficient to compile and run Gnu
Emacs Lisp extension packages? Is there prior or ongoing work for such a
project?
For some years there has been an attempt to port Gnu Emacs to run under Guile
Scheme. A big stumbling block is the vast amount of extensions written in
Emacs Lisp and continuing development thereof. Racket seems to be a *much*
better platform for such a project than Guile, don't you think?
_Greg (a long-time ambivalent Emacs user tired of Emacs Lisp)
I don't think elisp makes much sense out of Emacs. There is nothing
special about it as a programming language: it's Lisp (and not Scheme)
and depends on "primitives" of a text editor "frame work" from the 80s.
Porting individual modes or features to Dr Racket (or even Viper/VSI)
might give better results then reimplementing the intrinsics of the
overall Emacs package. But that depends on the expectations and
intentions of the programming users.
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