Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 23:09:24 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> We are far from becoming a toxic community, but new/different ideas are
> not really very welcome and sometimes the arguments are like "it has
> always been like that", "old users don't want that change".

Really?  You've just went through a process of proposing and
implementing a new feature -- did you feel your idea was "not really
welcome"?

> The conservative attitude in emacs development group (apart from the
> technical obstacles like the workflow and the paperwork and so on) gives
> the idea of a closed environment (that actually it is from the
> development point of view because we are like frozen in the past) where
> only very experts are welcome (that's the vision people have from
> outside) so very few melpa developers are really interested to face all
> those issues to contribute.

Is this your experience from implementing the fill-column indicator?
If so, how do you explain that you, as a relative non-expert, were
welcome in that case?