Re: About implementing libre.js/el in Emacs

[Qiantan Hong]

>> Option 1, besides enabling libre.js, can also bring numerous existing
>> cross-browser extensions to Emacs, if we finally support a large enough
>> portion of the Web Extension API. However those extensions are
>> all written in JS and JS is worse than Elisp.
> 
> This is a bad idea, at the deepest level, because it means supporting
> Emacs extensibility in two separate ways, with separate
> implementations.  That would make Emacs far more complex.
> 
> We should not support Emacs extensibility in Javascript.
> 
I highly agree with that, however currently numerous browser extensions
are already implemented completely in Javascript, including LibreJS.

Maybe another option is to have the other way around, implement
a JavaScript to Elisp translator, and support Emacs Lisp version of 
those web extension APIs. Then we can run the translator on librejs
to get librejs.el as a starting point.

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