Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:14:41 +0200
> 
> I personally believe that Emacs as a project would benefit of complete
> core rewrite, as well as unifying the extension and the implementation
> language for several reasons. Yes, it is a lot of work, but even
> rewriting C core to adapt Emacs to modern machines is a lot of work in
> itself, if it is even possible.

Sure, this has been said here several times.

Two problems with this:

  . we need volunteer(s) to actually do the work, and the requirements
    for their talents are hard to meet; and
  . the rewrite needs to keep all or most of Lisp still working, which
    is IMNSHO almost impossible, because our Lisp is written for the
    current design

I leave the conclusions as an exercise ;-)