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I am delighted to announce Remacs, a project to port Emacs to Rust!
Emacs, at its heart, is a lisp interpreter written in C. In Remacs, we're replacing this C code with Rust, and all the elisp you know and love will just work.
If you've ever fancied contributing to core Emacs, this is a great opportunity to learn the internals. There's tons of low hanging fruit, we have a list of good first bugs and even a walkthrough of writing your first elisp function using Rust.
Rust is perfect for this because we can port incrementally. If you want to replace the entire regular expression engine, you can do that. If you just want to replace this function here, you can do that and the C code won't even notice. You will have a full-blown Emacs every step of the way.
[...] Remacs is based on Emacs 25.2. We've got enough type definitions that you can write interesting built-in functions, but the project is still at a very early stage. Using these, we've got a few built-in elisp functions written entirely in Rust: some arithmetic, some type checks, and even some basic list functionality.
I'll stick to MrPlow for now, thanks. He's Rust enough for me until his code stops looking like a noob wrote it.
Source: http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/01/11/announcing-remacs-porting-emacs-to-rust/
(Score: 2, Troll) by Nerdfest on Friday January 13 2017, @09:26PM
Yeah, this would not be at the top of the list of things I'd do in Rust. I'd pick stuff like openSSH and other things where buffer overflows and memory allocation mistakes create security exploits. Hell, I'd do an operating system before Emacs, or is that a contradiction?
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday January 13 2017, @10:28PM
They already have redox (os written in rust), so it seems they agree on OS first ;)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 13 2017, @10:29PM
I'd do an operating system before Emacs, or is that a contradiction?
Yes.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Saturday January 14 2017, @01:05AM
Thanks. This is why I come here. Well, that and the abuse.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14 2017, @01:18AM
Rust hipsters are the last people who should be writing security software. You're gonna end up with plenty of different bugs in the original code that they'll imtroduce.