That, or contribute to Neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim

Neovim is a fantastic project, even if you're not interested in vim. They are a model example of how a FOSS kickstarter should be run.

> My personal feeling is that sometimes it's just better to abandon projects that stagnate. There's an open source Go version of Sublime, for example. It would probably be easier to maintain.

That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The only thing which makes Emacs-on-Guile difficult is backwards compatibility. If you find Sublime a viable option, then compatibility isn't an issue for you; in which case there's nothing preventing you from using Emacs-on-Guile right now.

XEmacs? I remember when it was the more modern emacs and I was younger and had to have all the new things. After a while I noticed that gnu emacs had picked up everything that xemacs had and was better maintained so I switched back to gnu. Maybe another fork like that could drive emacs forward. The more adventurous emacs users could use and drive the fork forward while other can stay comfortable with regular gnu emacs for a while longer.

I love emacs and it pains me to agree with this, at least in part.

It has reached an odd place, there is enough legacy code (or so it's believed) that it can't be abandoned, there are clear innovations that will never go in to elisp (jit compilation, threads, Ffi, etc) and guile isn't being accepted while it is clearly the best way forward that has been suggested. It's like emacs is done.

Considering something else only makes sense...

Are you living in the real world? The complexities are around keeping a stable platform that some of us have been using for 10-15 years with few complaints.

As with any corporate product, you can't go changing shit when you have a large paying userbase.

Sad to see you were downvoted. It's definitely a legitimate point of view that at least deserves to be brought up.