Re: Consideration for Rust contributions in Emacs

[John Yates]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:26 AM Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
<arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
>
> There was a point about complexity: adding another language besides C
> and elisp increases complexity for contributors and maintainers a lot.

Once upon a time, functions deemed performance critical were
implemented within the C core.  Over time that impetus has
diminished greatly.  I have observed large amounts of functionality
migrate from C to lisp.  Native compilation can only have reinforced
that evolution.

The net effect has been to reduce the need for most emacs developers
ever to need to work in any language other than lisp.

/john