> The idea of GuileEmacs is not to move away from the elisp language. The idea is to use an elisp implementation based on the Guile virtual machine.
> Elisp will not go away. So any arguments for lisp and against scheme are void in this context.
If the goal is not to mingle elisp & Scheme, then what's the point of using the Guile VM? Why not just implement an interpreter for elisp in Lisp?
There is absolutely no reason to mingle Scheme with elisp. Scheme's not a bad language for those places it's well-suited, but production software is not one of those places. For that there is Common Lisp.
Elisp will not go away. So any arguments for lisp and against scheme are void in this context.