Remacs: Re-Implementing Emacs In Rust

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 11 January 2017 at 10:54 PM EST. 45 Comments
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For those looking at other new uses for the Rust programming language, there is now a Rust implementation of the popular Emacs editor.

Remacs is a rewrite of Emacs' C code within the Mozilla-sponsored programming language. In terms of why there is this separate Rust-based implementation of Emacs, "Porting to Rust gives us lots of opportunities. We can leverage the rapidly-growing crate ecosystem. We can drop support legacy compilers and platforms (looking at you, MS-DOS). We can add docstrings and unit tests to core functions that aren’t exposed to elisp. It’s also a ton of fun. Remacs is based on Emacs 25.2."

Those wishing to find out more about this Rust-based Emacs implementation, Remacs, can read this blog post for all the details.
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