Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/1001645/

Emacs is, famously, an
editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own
variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs
Lisp (or Elisp). This year’s
edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual “gathering” that has been held
online for the past five years, had two separate talks on using a different
variant of Lisp, Guile,
for Emacs. Both projects would preserve Elisp compatibility, which is a
must, but they would use Guile differently. The first talk we will cover
was given by Robin Templeton, who described the relaunch of the Guile-Emacs project, which would replace
the Elisp in Emacs with a compiler using Guile. A subsequent article will look
at the other talk, which is about an Emacs clone written
using Guile.