Re: Issues with emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 24 2012, Tom wrote:
>
>> Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> 
>>> The good news is that, whether Emacs users are a dying breed
>>> or not, the only remedy to this hypothetical issue is to have
>>> more Emacs developers.
>>> 
>>
>> But how to have more developers. I see 3 possibilites:
>>
>> 1. Motivate more users to be volunteer developers? Any idea how
>> to do that?
>
> One possibility: if a pure-Lisp implementation of Emacs became the
> "main" implementation, I wonder if many Elisp-gurus who aren't
> particularly enthusiastic about C programming would be encouraged to
> expand their hacking into the Emacs basics.
>
> If the line between programming Emacs packages and programming Emacs
> guts were blurred or erased altogether, I'll bet you'd get a lot more
> people able and willing to contribute work on fundamentals like the
> display engine or multi-threading.
>
> Just a thought,

Indeed.


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