I haven't given them a close look, but there is a project called "zile" that - AFAIU - aims to create an emacs-like editor using Lua instead of Lisp. Which soun

I haven't given them a close look, but there is a project called "zile" that - AFAIU - aims to create an emacs-like editor using Lua instead of Lisp. Which sounds amazing to me. Also, there's another project to replace emacs' lisp interpreter / bytecode VM with GNU Guile, which started out as an embeddable Scheme interpreter, but apparently these days it is a JIT compiler that supports Scheme, Javascript, and elisp. Which means Guile-Emacs could absorb all of that elisp code without a problem, probably make it run faster, too, but also open the door for people that don't feel comfortable with elisp. More importantly, maybe, this project could bring people from different language communities together. Again, I have not spent much time looking into the project, so consider all of what I'm writing hearsay. But things are happening.