Guile Emacs isn't a bottom-up rewrite of Emacs [1], but a project to replace the elisp runtime with Guile. One important thing it does not do is get rid of/conv

Guile Emacs isn't a bottom-up rewrite of Emacs [1], but a project to replace the elisp runtime with Guile. One important thing it does not do is get rid of/convert any ELisp, because of how much is invested in it: 71% of the ~2M LOC codebase is ELisp: https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs https://www.openhub.net/p/emacs Guile would run the ELisp code. What's holding the project back, IIRC, is that it doesn't yet do so perfectly. [1] which is something I (and likely most users) frequently think it sorely needs, until we realize A) the monumental size of the task and B) how much refinement the current version already has, as per http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html