🚀 go-pugleaf

Craig Durland (craig@cv.hp.com) writes:

>I've done this and it seems like a big win.  I didn't use C for the
>language-to-write-editor-extensions and I don't think you want to - C
>is too "low" level for writing extensions in (its great for writing the
>editor itself).  Extension writers shouldn't have to worry about memory
>allocation and all the other little details that C requires you to.
>This doesn't have to take lots of memory - I have garbage collection,
>recursion, lists, etc and the total editor size is < 150k (68k Unix).
>The extensions run slower than native C code but that doesn't seem to be
>much of a problem.

I realize that you work for one of their major competitors,
but DEC's TPU (Text PRocessing Utility) offers a real nice
language for implementing editors.  You might want to have a
look at it, or the third-party implementation nu/TPU.

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