|
|
|
|
|
|
by muuh-gnu
4205 days ago
|
|
|
Considering that the push for Guile is not coming from the Emacs community, but from the Guile community in order to promote Guile, I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme. Switching to Scheme will be GNU Emacs's suicide. |
|
|
If Emacs and all of its extension code was completely rewritten in Scheme, what would be the point of sticking with Elisp? And how would using a Scheme-only Emacs be "GNU Emacs's suicide"?
What concrete value does Elisp add over Scheme?
CL vs Scheme, I could see an (unconvincing to me) argument for, but Elisp? Elisp?
Don't get me wrong. I'd much rather use Elisp than most any other non-lispy language. I just don't see anything in it to recommend it over a modern Scheme like Guile.
But I'm open to being shown the errors of my ways. What's so great about Elisp? Please enlighten me.