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I suppose that begets the question, why would I write a native plugin instead of using elisp? I'm guessing the answer is so I can do some sort of background wor

by emidln 10y ago

I suppose that begets the question, why would I write a native plugin instead of using elisp? I'm guessing the answer is so I can do some sort of background work in another thread?

mookid11 10y ago
You can use the ocaml toolchain (for instance: ocamllex and ocamlyacc) and stop writing ad hoc parsers.
- junke 10y ago
  That makes sense. Thanks.
throwanem 10y ago
That, or for speed, or in order to take advantage of already extant library functions rather than reimplementing them in Emacs Lisp, or some combination of the above.