>make a working modern package manager package.el works great. >integrate the browser That may actually be possible in the future, see http://www.emacswiki.o

>make a working modern package manager package.el works great. >integrate the browser That may actually be possible in the future, see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXWidgets http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXWidgets >perhaps rewrite emacs from scratch That is just silly. The current Elisp interpreter might be replaced with an Elisp implementation on top of the Guile VM. That would be quite the big upgrade, technically speaking. >unfortunately lighttable is staying closed for much too long I agree, I don't have much faith in the "it will be free eventually, just trust us" development model. If the project really wanted to be community friendly then the source code would have been free from the beginning.