This is probably borderline flamebait, but my impression as an outsider looking in is that Richard Stallman not being as involved as he once was in setting poli

This is probably borderline flamebait, but my impression as an outsider looking in is that Richard Stallman not being as involved as he once was in setting policy for FSF projects held it back quite a bit. Most notably, he had a long-time prohibition of any sort of FFI for both GCC and Emacs. Yes, the reversal of that policy was more than 12 years ago at this point[1], but note how the first Emacs release with an FFI came out in late 2016[2]. Arguably it's only in the last couple of years that we've seen the floodgates open on the potential of that. E.g. TreeSitter & the SQLite interface in this upcoming Emacs 29 release is only there because of FFI. I really respect what Stallman's done for the free software movement at large, but I think in this and a few other cases he was fighting yesterday's battles for around two decades too long. 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00240.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs