On: Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (2017)

[protomyth]

I’m actually surprised there isn’t a library called libemacs. It would fulfill the mythos and be really useful for a lot of tools.

[gnulinux → protomyth]

Emacs doesn't do anything in C other than running lisp, emacs really is just a lisp implementation with GUI and text editing focus. libemacs would be just like lua or cpython.

[kazinator → gnulinux]

Emacs has over a quarter million lines of C, which must be there for a reason.

[olliej → protomyth]

But then companies could use it to assault rms’s Freedom ;)

[coldacid → protomyth]

All it would (need to) be is just a ELisp interpreter.

[greggyb → coldacid]

Guile's VM already supports this.