Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[David Kastrup]

Sven Axelsson <address@hidden> writes:

> If the only remaining reason for this change is to attract new, young
> and hip contributors, maybe it is also time to rewrite Emacs in
> Haskell and CoffeScript. That would surely bring in lots of new
> contributors and breathe new life into the project. Right?

Well, rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp has been done once or twice (I seem
to remember something called Hemlock for example).  The net attraction
for new developers as compared to the old ones did not really seem to
give those projects a significant boost as compared to Emacs.

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David Kastrup