Re:Emacs 26.2 Released
by steveklabnik on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:09PM
(#19649504)
Remacs is supposed to be an in-place re-write, so it should be just as usable as upstream.
Wow, I should try it then :)
OTOH, being an in-place rewrite, it likely cannot afford to change some of the more important architectural decisions, very likely including the ones that prevent multithreading.
Re:Emacs 26.2 Released
by steveklabnik on Friday April 12, 2019 @08:02PM
(#19650124)
Well, yes and no; the more that gets into Rust, the more that can be refactored. I don’t know much about the details though.
- Guile Emacs does not seem very alive: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git
- Remacs, a Rust port, seems to be more alive: https://github.com/remacs/remacs Does not look usable as a daily driver, though.
I sometimes wish that Xi editor adopted an elisp port as one of the scripting engines. Not very likely, though; a suitable port does not exist in the first place so far.