Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
by lispm on Monday July 17, 2017 @04:13AM
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The idea would be:
* replace the GNU Emacs runtime written in C/Rust with one which is already provided by a Common Lisp implementation. Each Common Lisp implementation has its own runtime already, but those are not application specific to an editor. Several Common Lisp runtimes for example support multi-threaded Lisp code, native Lisp code, various GCs, support for more data types, better error handling, ... plus they support much of the basic Lisp stuff which is in the GNU Emacs runtime (evaluating code, loading code, ...)
* move some C/Rust code into Common Lisp, since Common Lisp compilers make it possible to write a wider range of code directly in Lisp.
* provide some low-level C code to Common Lisp via it's FFI. That way the C code does not need to be a part of the runtime.
But the topic is dead, because the expertise to do something like that is rare and the GNU Emacs community has no interest moving in this direction.
* replace the GNU Emacs runtime written in C/Rust with one which is already provided by a Common Lisp implementation. Each Common Lisp implementation has its own runtime already, but those are not application specific to an editor. Several Common Lisp runtimes for example support multi-threaded Lisp code, native Lisp code, various GCs, support for more data types, better error handling, ... plus they support much of the basic Lisp stuff which is in the GNU Emacs runtime (evaluating code, loading code, ...)
* move some C/Rust code into Common Lisp, since Common Lisp compilers make it possible to write a wider range of code directly in Lisp.
* provide some low-level C code to Common Lisp via it's FFI. That way the C code does not need to be a part of the runtime.
But the topic is dead, because the expertise to do something like that is rare and the GNU Emacs community has no interest moving in this direction.