For me this is the most exciting part: Complete Emacs-compatible Elisp implementation Thanks to the work of Robin Templeton, Guile's Elisp implementation is now fully Emacs-compatible, implementing all of Elisp's features and quirks in the same way as the editor we know and love.
This means we can finally have a proper GuileEmacs! bcg1
Mar 16
Also exciting is the "Fibers" functionality for I/O as well as the updates to the vm instructions that will more naturally facilitate JIT compilation. Especially now that a 2.2 release has been cut, I wouldn't be surprised if JIT compilation makes it upstream soon: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00... peatmoss
Mar 17
While others in this thread rightly point out that there's still work to be done to make GuileEmacs, I'm interested in another use case that seems like it could potentially be realized in the near-ish term: lib-org-mode. I love org-mode, but wish that some of the features could be ported elsewhere just to make the format more ubiquitous. Or a stand-along org-mode notebook server. Or support in other text editors. Or...