Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 194, Issue 161

[Richard Stallman]

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  > To answer your questions:
  >   - Electron is mostly under a free license, but is non-free, due
  >     to non-free blobs.

That would definitely rule it out.

    > - Electron is basically Google's Chromium browser, bundled
    >   up as an app development platform.

    > - You're going to have a lot of issues if you try making
    >   Emacs use Electron.  For one, you're going to have to write
    >   a large part of the UI in JavaScript code, and then have it
    >   play well with C code.

I think either of these would make it technically unsuitable for
Emacs, even if it had no worse problems.

Thanks for researching the question.

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