Exploring the Potential of Extending Emacs with Fennel
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Bogdanp
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Summary
The article discusses the idea of extending Emacs with Fennel, exploring the limitations of Guile and the potential for incorporating other languages into Emacs. It touches on the challenges of compatibility with modern releases of Lua.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledSure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design.
Sure, it would be nice, if Emacs could natively run all of these, but we have to understand, that Guile Lua is not PUC Lua.
Even LuaJIT has difficulties maintaining full compatibility with modern releases of Lua, having us stuck in t
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