guile-emacs was impressive and still is

I am glad to hear of Robin's guile-emacs revival effort and that it's getting relevant attention. guile-emacs is an impressive and frankly incredible project.

I think people may be surprised just how much works of it too. In 2015, I took a screenshot of me running it with my config file working, my theme, and an org-mode buffer and some elisp both open: https://dustycloud.org/tmp/guile-emacs-20150513.png

I've long felt sad that guile-emacs was sitting on the shelf. I was sad that much of the emacs community gave guile-emacs such a lukewarm reception a decade ago. I hope that can change today.

At the time, guile-emacs was mostly unoptimized, but the optimization work needed was known. It was amazing being able to run both elisp and scheme code both between it, and with Guile's compiler tower, it would be possible to run even more languages. Guile has also received a huge amount of work on performance which emacs could itself benefit from; another interesting integration point could be the work on Scheme-to-WASM with Hoot (which Robin has contributed significantly to also). I'm not sure how that latter part would play out, but it's no doubt interesting.

So all I will say to wrap this up is: go guile-emacs! I hope the project succeeds.