If there was an actively-developed common lisp implementation that also ran elisp, I would be all for running emacs on that as well. Emacs' sheer size (which y

If there was an actively-developed common lisp implementation that also ran elisp, I would be all for running emacs on that as well. Emacs' sheer size (which you mentioned yourself) means you're not going to port it to a different language and have something comparably useful in less than a few years, assuming sustained interest and full-time development.