[euid]

> I think it would be a tremendous waste of effort to rewrite Emacs libraries in any language other than Emacs Lisp. Thus, what interests me is the idea of supporting other languages in addition to Emacs Lisp.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00...

> Common Lisp is extremely complicated and ugly. When I wrote GNU Emacs I had just finished implementing Common Lisp, and I did not like it much. It would bloat Emacs terribly, and documenting it would be hard too.

> Scheme is elegant, and it is a better direction to move in.

> Since we have our own Scheme implementation, we should use that one. If it has a serious disadvantage, we should do something about that. There are various things that might be right to do, but simply disregarding it in the case of Emacs cannot be right.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-04/msg00...

[klibertp]

No, I know this, I was talking about exposing FFI to Elisp, for loading dlls/shared libraries which I assumed "dynamic modules" referred to. IIRC RMS said that this would encourage writing Emacs extensions in non-free fashion and distributing them as blobs instead of in the form of source code.