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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 f

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.

pmoriarty 12y ago
Let me ask you this: 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.
davexunit 12y ago
>I guess that Emacs will be forked as soon as they deprecate Elisp and start forcing people to use Scheme. Bullshit.