Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript

Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by outworlder on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:49PM (#26470952)

Not entirely sure I see the point.

I would like to see Emacs/Guile. Emacs need a more modern elisp (or in this case, Scheme) implementation. It's much easier to make it compatible with the mountain of existing (and useful!) elisp code if you are also in a form of Lisp. That's still not trivial.

It also needs a better front-end renderer, across platforms. I could understand if the "NG" part were to be just about that. But WebRender is an optional feature. Then again, it looks and runs perfectly fine for me on Linux, it's when I'm using on OSX that I see the warts. This is doubtless in no small part due to patches being refused because they are for proprietary platforms.

Async I/O is needed but I am not sure we need to bring Typescript and a full JS environment to get that.

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Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript by Ericson2314 on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:13PM (#26471688)

Came to say the same, and guile emacs was attempted in the past.

It doesn't make sen to have multiple interpreters jury-rigged up (the horror!) And it also doesn't make sense to throw away all the lisp by having no interpreter for emacs lisp. Guile does support emacs lisp just for this purpose.

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