[wglb]

This has been proposed in the past.

One of the difficulties to be overcome is the huge base of existing elisp code. This code base is part of the attraction of emacs.

[wicket232]

[Indeed](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImplementations). And [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Other_forks_and_clones).

That said, I wonder about the possibility of taking an Emacs written in some other language and adding an Elisp interpreter to it such that it could make use of all the existing Emacs elisp out there.