<i>By the time we have native compilation, I hope also our Elisp implementation will be significantly faster than the one in Emacs, so it will really become attractive to people to finish the work that we have done to make the switch there.</i><p>For an emacs user, that's pretty exciting.
So, does 2.0 have up-arrow history and in general not freak out when I try to do stuff in interactive mode? Guile's great for what it's great at, but interactive dev. in the custom of Python or Gambit Scheme isn't one of those things, at least for me.
They talk about ELF for storing byte code? Would that work on Windows/OSX?<p>(I guess it would, as much as Mono can load PE .NET files for OSX/Linux, after all these won't be loaded directly (it won't make much sense without the runtime anyway))