Name: Anonymous 2010-11-06 22:47
I heard there was a project to convert emacs code from emacs lisp to guile. I think the project has stalled but I think this should be made a priority by FSF to go through with this because emacs lisp is an antiquated dialect of lisp that lacks lexical scoping. If emacs was coded in guile I think that would attract a lot of people to emacs as it would be a lot better to do configuration scripting in a popular lisp dialect rather than have to learn a dialect that you will never use for anything else. In fact people might start learning emacs just to be able to use guile. I think guile is moderately fast so it might be possible to replace the small amount of C code in emacs and make it a pure lisp app