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Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:01:38 -0500

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  > Rust is able to generate C dynamic library, so we can link with it.

I am interested in understanding what that means.  Could you describe
in 10-20 lines what it means?  What is the input, what is the output,
and what software does the conversion?

  > You can take a look at librsvg[1] (from project GNOME). A SVG renderer
  > powered by Rust(and it's also used by Emacs currently)

That is not something I can feasibly do -- it would take an hour if
not several hours for me to learn the basic points.  So I hope
you will describe what I need to know in a brief summary.

But I think it would be a nuisance to make this a separate library.
It should be packaged with the support for getopt, and written in C so
we (the GNU Project) can easily maintain it.

>From what I hear, Rust has a fundamental practical flaw: it is not
intended to be stable.  The developers want to keep changing it.
That's fine, in principle, but until they decided to make it stable,
we should write important code in some other language.

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