Re: Guile & Emacs chat at emacs hackathon/bug-crush SF

[Stefan Husmann]

Mikael Djurfeldt writes:

> This is wonderful news! :-)
>
> I've actually tried out guile-emacs recently. What would be wonderful to
> have is some kind of simple "map" over what has been done so far (e.g. the
> large-scale structure of the code and what the relationship between the
> elisp and guile interpreter currently is). Maybe that exists and I didn't
> find it?
>
> Best regards,
> Mikael D.
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Christopher Allan Webber <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Heya everyone,
>>
>> I was at the Emacs hackathon / bug crushing event and I gave a couple
>> demos that were Guile related, one showing off guile-emacs, and one
>> showing off Guix's Emacs integration.  So the good news is: the talk
>> went super, super well (on both, but especially guile-emacs), and
>> enthusiasm was high!  When I showed guile-emacs live, there were some
>> amazed expressions to see oh hey... this is *really* working!
>>
>> I also had a conversation with John Wiegley, current maintainer of
>> emacs, and he said several things:
>>
>>  - He thinks it would be *great* to have Emacs running on Scheme, a
>>    clear win, assuming it's integrated and runs fast and works well.
>>
>>  - However, Guile would have to be able to make a promise: once Emacs
>>    ran on top of Guile, Emacs would have to be able to have say over
>>    anything that could end up changing actual semantics in Emacs
>>    (mainly, anything that would break Emacs user's source code).
>>
>>    (I think there's an easy answer to this: guile-emacs is already
>>    aiming for heavy backwards compatibility and should just preserve
>>    that at this level.)
>>
>>  - If we could prove that performance was better in guile-emacs, that's
>>    an easy way to win enthusiasm.
>>
>>  - A good goal to work towards: all of emacs' tests should pass using
>>    guile-emacs.
>>
>> So that's all a ways off, but I'm feeling enthusiastic that it's
>> possible!
>>
>>  - Chris
>>
>> PS: I'd like to see bipt's elisp branch merged with master.  I might try
>> to help... I'm trying to learn enough to do so.  However I don't have a
>> lot of time, and especially not a lot of experience with compilers..
>>
>>

Hello,
I only know the article in emacs wiki:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

especially the part 3 "Long Term Issues".

Best Regards
-- 
Stefan Husmann