Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Theodor Thornhill]

On 28 August 2021 18:55:00 CEST, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
>Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Out of curiosity, I checked [0] to see what the languages are said to be
>>> popular:
>>
>> Thanks -- interesting list.
>>
>>> | Language             | Status                                |
>>> |----------------------+---------------------------------------|
>>> | C                    | Built-In                              |
>>> | Python               | Built-In                              |
>>> | Java                 | Built-In                              |
>>> | C++                  | Built-In                              |
>>> | C#                   | ELPA                                  |
>>
>> To clarify -- when I said that C# didn't need to be in Emacs Core, it's
>> not because it's not a major language (it is), but it's my opinion that
>> it's unlikely that a large number of people would want to use Emacs when
>> programming in C#.  (Because the IDEs that come bundled with the popular
>> C# compilers are what people are using, and it seems unlikely that many
>> people would want to switch away from those.)
>
>How popular is .net core on gnu/linux? Do peole write lots of C# stuff for that
>runtime in gnu/linux environment?
>

They do, yes! How many? No idea. But it seems semiregular in Norway at least, 
were Linux finally takes over the server domain.

>I am sure though that Lars resoning there holds for VB/VBA/VBScript.
>

Probably