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Mission criticality of remacs? #1587

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Kreyren opened this issue Sep 7, 2020 · 2 comments
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Mission criticality of remacs? #1587

Kreyren opened this issue Sep 7, 2020 · 2 comments

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@Kreyren
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Kreyren commented Sep 7, 2020

The one thing i hate on emacs is that it is not very suitable for mission critical environment for following reasons:

  • Insufficient detection of memory leaks
  • Long startup
  • Likely to hang as elisp's functions like read-string does not have a timeout for the user to input a text and timeout for how much time the end-user has to finish the sequence.
  • other issues

Thus proposing to update Design Goals to adapt the development for mission critical environment alike:

  1. Usage in aviation hardware
  2. Usage in kubernetes i.e simmilar to gitpod.io
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Kreyren commented Sep 7, 2020

Based on #305 it seems that remacs wants to achieve a feature parity with GNU Emacs while rewriting the C core in rust so this doesn't seem actionable here -> Maybe implement these in GNU Emacs so that it would be implemented here?

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Remacs is experimental hobby software, and therefore it should absolutely not be used for anything mission critical under any circumstances.

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