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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by nemo846 on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:43AM (#18267921)
I believe there have been attempts at integrating GNU Guile (enabling the use of Scheme) into it and replacing ELisp going forward.

The project seem dead in the water though.

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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by vmsp on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:53AM (#18268247)
AFAIK the point wasn't to replace elisp. It was to replace emacs' interpreter with guile's which also supports elisp.
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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by bjoli on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:19AM (#18272566)
Well, guile supports elisp. The project was to replace the Emacs elisp runtime with the guile VM which would bring some benefits (a runtime that could be used without emacs, speed etc).
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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by EamonnMR on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:57AM (#18268270)
That was the original intent of GNU Guile.
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