Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> David wants to write a GCC plugin that outputs the complete AST.
> We do not want to promote that sort of plugin.

What exactly does that mean?  IIUC, it's *easy* to write such a plugin,
so the only reason nobody's done it so far is because it's even easier
to do it with clang, so noone but a true Free Software advocate would
bother writing/using such a plugin.
IOW discouraging such plugins only hurts *us*.


        Stefan