Re: Development Speed

[Po Lu]

xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

>> It's not much more modular than what we have in Emacs. The only real
>> difference is that it runs in a separate process, which I think also
>> poses freedom issues. AFAIK there is at least one proprietary frontend
>> for neovim.

> I don't know if it is more or much more, but credit where credit is due.

I don't see any reason why that credit due.

> This does help them receive more contributions than both Vim and Emacs.

How so?

> Structuring the code with respect to software freedom is a whole different
> subject, (which I support) but current ifdef toolkit jungle is not that.

The "ifdef toolkit jungle" is restricted to the X-Windows code, and X is
so complicated to program for that every significant program using X
works that way.

> I cannot see the future or what could've been, this is highly opinionated
> but I do believe following latest C standard as early as possible is good
> for an open source project.

It's not possible in the first place.

Thanks.