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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by agumonkey on Sunday July 16, 2017 @02:44PM (#14783502)
I believe remacs is already having some sort of positive impact, yet not a user visible that is true. But for decades emacs core was somehow a blackhole. Now it's been modeled in another very different language. That's very nice.

Also maybe it will help testing emacs, and even improving faster since rust typesystem is said to help refactoring tremendously.

We'll see.

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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by dman on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:20PM (#14783678)
I hope that the other side of forking is also being considered - forks have a draining effect on existing contributors and can potentially have a divisive effect on an existing community.
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