Wayland support (and more) for Emacs

Posted Jan 28, 2021 19:11 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Wayland support (and more) for Emacs by jem
Parent article: Wayland support (and more) for Emacs

> able to reliably run most Emacs Lisp code." And yet the reaction has been: "meh".

Afaik, it ran significantly slower. Also "most" needs to be more specific. Before any real consideration it would need to be really close, like 99%, "most" could mean 80%.

Wayland support (and more) for Emacs

Posted Jan 28, 2021 19:13 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418) [Link]

> real consideration

I should have said real preparation or momentum to switch. But, I do agree there is a social problem as well.

Wayland support (and more) for Emacs

Posted Jan 28, 2021 19:41 UTC (Thu) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link]

Guile Emacs's startup speed was/is slower, not the speed in general. Also, the ability to run "most" Emacs Lisp was the state of things in 2014. In 2017 version 2.2.0 was released, which "provided a complete Emacs-compatible Elisp implementation, implementing all of Elisp's features and quirks in the same way as Emacs."