Wilfred Hughes::Blog Archives Contact Thanks 11 January 2017 3 minute read I am delighted to announce Remacs , a project to port Emacs to Rust ! Emacs, at its heart, is a lisp interpreter written in C. In Remacs, we’re replacing this C code with Rust, and all the elisp you know and love will just work . If you’ve ever fancied contributing to core Emacs, this is a great opportunity to learn the internals. There’s tons of low hanging fruit, we have a list of good first bugs and even a walkthrough of writing your first elisp function using Rust . Rust is perfect for this because we can port incrementally. If you want to replace the entire regular expression engine, you can do that. If you just want to replace this function here , you can do that and the C code won’t even notice. You will have a full-blown Emacs every step of the way. Rust is also a te...