please, please, you Emacs/LISP gurus out there: make a working modern package manager and integrate the browser like lighttable does. and perhaps rewrite emacs from scratch so that the source code makes sense in today's world not in 1980's world.
unfortunately lighttable is staying closed for much too long, but something like it is desperately needed.
package.el works great.
>integrate the browser
That may actually be possible in the future, see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXWidgets
>perhaps rewrite emacs from scratch
That is just silly. The current Elisp interpreter might be replaced with an Elisp implementation on top of the Guile VM. That would be quite the big upgrade, technically speaking.
>unfortunately lighttable is staying closed for much too long
I agree, I don't have much faith in the "it will be free eventually, just trust us" development model. If the project really wanted to be community friendly then the source code would have been free from the beginning.
M-x packages-list-packages
M-x eww
Would you like a pony, too?
> so that the source code makes sense in today's world not in 1980's world.
I've actually found that Emacs's source it very readable (even the C lisp engine stuff). Do you object to the lisp or to the C?
$ sudo braindump bachback.core|tail
;-)
Wow, now you have access to the package manager.
Emacs is meant to be customized heavily by its users and the language to do so is Elisp. If you are afraid of that then I don't know what to tell you.
You are quick to condemn all Lisps with an assertion that doesn't make sense to me.
M-x package-install
<package name>
That's with a blank .emacs file on Emacs 24 on a brand new user account I created just to test that for you.
EDIT: (ofc the auto-installing my favourite packages stuff is elisp I wrote)
You obviously have no idea of how huge undertaking would this be. You are free to write your new editor and call it Fnbdt.