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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
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John Wiegley |
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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language |
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Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:09:05 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> In this thread, we are not talking about attracting more users, we are
> talking about attracting more _developers_ for the core C code.
[...]
> As Daniel already wrote in this thread: don't underestimate the complexity
> of Emacs that has nothing to do with the implementation language. Emacs
> solves quite a few very complex problems; the solution is therefore complex,
> and will be so no matter in what language you express it. That complexity is
> IME the main obstacle for newcomers to Emacs maintenance. The rest is
> non-negligible, of course, but good engineering practice is to solve the
> main problem first, and go for the secondary one only afterwards.
> Therefore, I think efforts to improve the documentation, commentary, and
> readability of the code will yield higher gains faster than switching to
> another language.
I just want to give a huge +1 to this whole message by Eli. To anyone skimming
through this thread, it deserves a closer read.
John
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, (continued)
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/17
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/17
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Gian Uberto Lauri, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Tassilo Horn, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Tassilo Horn, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, John Wiegley, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/10/15
- emacs IDE features (was: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language), Andrés Ramírez, 2015/10/13
- Re: emacs IDE features, John Wiegley, 2015/10/13
- Re: emacs IDE features, Phillip Lord, 2015/10/15
- Re: emacs IDE features, John Wiegley, 2015/10/16
- Re: emacs IDE features, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/17
- Re: emacs IDE features, John Wiegley, 2015/10/17
- Re: emacs IDE features, Sacha Chua, 2015/10/17
- Re: emacs IDE features, Xue Fuqiao, 2015/10/17