I share your wish. Emacs, as wonderful as it is, has accumulated a lot of cruft over the decades and would benefit immensely from a rewrite. A "Neo-Emacs" could be multithreaded from the ground up and drop support for archaic platforms. The rewrite could even be in Rust to attract younger developers.

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umanwizard 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There would be no point to writing emacs in a language that can’t be developed interactively in a repl. Emacs being written in lisp is an essential quality.

	▲	BigTTYGothGF 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Emacs being written in lisp is an essential quality Not for the parts of it I use.

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precompute 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>a lot of cruft

Like what? Emacs is written in C and there are ports of it out there (all half-abandoned). Emacs, the way it exists, works very well.

	▲	umanwizard 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The vast majority of emacs is written in lisp, not C.