On: Emacs maintainer steps down

[chetanahuja]

Holy shit. This is incredible. I love Emacs but it's so sad that the stewardship of this amazing piece of software is in the hands of someone who would rather keep the feature-set substandard because of vague fears that someone might steal the AST's from his precious GCC.

I wonder what would be the problem with someone using libclang to generate the same AST information in a much more convenient fashion. Will it break the GPL in some way?

[nanny → chetanahuja]

People can and do use libclang for AST info in the same manner that you're talking about: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode

[chetanahuja → nanny]

Almost didn't click on that link because it looked like a joke link (Sarcasm and irony!!). Glad I did and found something new :-)