Re: basic questions on MPS

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  gerd.moellmann@gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:53:28 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> Also which are the main users (in terms of software) of MPS?
>> >
>> > You can find a few by searching the Internet.  I found these:
>> >
>> >   Harlequin RIP (Raster Image Processor) -- not a surprise, since MPS
>> >        was originally developed by Harlequin
>> >
>> >   Open Dylan (also from Harlequin, so no surprises) offers MPS as a
>> >        build option (https://opendylan.org/release-notes/2019.1.html)
>> >
>> >   Clasp (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp), a Common Lisp
>> >        implementation that seamlessly interoperates with C++ libraries
>> >
>> >   Configura Magic (CM),
>> >        
>> > https://support.configura.com/hc/en-us/sections/360008682434-CM-Language,
>> >        an object-oriented language
>> 
>> I found similar results but hoped to find some more popular production
>> SW relaying on it.
>
> Well, Emacs is popular...

Absolutely, and I'm not saying that having no popular SW relying on it
alone would be no go.  Emacs was the first popular user of libgccjit as
well and I think I played a role with that :)

I'm just just trying to gather info so we have a better picture to
reason on.

  Andrea