To understand why, we have to look at who has been gating its development. Long ago, the FSF began rationalizing the failures of their strategies and technology choices rather than seriously re-analyzing how reality had unfolded. If the Elisp runtime was slow, that wasn't the problem. The problem was that you weren't prioritizing your "freedom".

Guile Emacs exists. The reason that its own developers and other hands who have touched it don't want to try harder is because they know for a fact that getting anything merged into Emacs core means an utterly exhausting, soul-crushing slog where people who have made a profession of not changing their minds will demand to be convinced to change their minds.

Go hop over to the Lem Discord. They love doing things. They just want to program. It's such a massive breath of fresh air to be able to talk about technology and doing well instead of having this hand-wringing performative "freedom" signaling. It's like when church kids talk about doing something normal and have to make a little show of their loyalty to the cause before they can exercise their free will and judgement.

I want lab-grown meat, Year of the Linux Desktop, and synthetic biochemistry to get the microplastics out of my body. The FSF doesn't care. They don't care. They decided that success is bad and that dying on a hill is good. They want to force everyone to be backwards compatible with decisions they made thirty years ago as if it has any hope of revitalizing an ecosystem that they deny even exists.

I feel utterly and completely betrayed by the FSF and want as far away from them as possible. Technically, I find the prospects of Lem to be superior. I find political landscape not in favor of Guile Emacs and I fear that if Emacs users manage to obtain Guile, they will have also bought into another decade under the stifling leadership inside the dark recesses of a mailing list they don't know how badly they disagree with.

There's $100 right now sitting in an account that someone pre-paid. I have seen their email and know it's nobody I've known. The purpose of those funds is to develop the rest of our features. This person wants our platform to exist in its fully intended glory. That is what we are selling.

$25 per week are enrolled, but without matching funds of the correct shapes, I am only guaranteed $1 per week. The other $24 are sitting there waiting for others.

The matching is two-dimensional. Watch the animation. Study it. It tells you everything. You never see the levels of large donors exceeding those below. You never see a level even exist until there are sufficient small donors. Features like this coordinates cooperation across wildly different budgets. Elastic Fund Matching 1.1.0 will do it better. We won't stop. We like money.

The thresholds expand by double each time the matching is triggered. This is basically a fancy but fundamentally better Kickstarter funding progress bar. It matches funds two-dimensionally. It expands to capture more demand. It is our prototype feature.

Political extremists advocate for free speech in order to further their agenda, but when given power happily turn back it against their enemies. Corporations advocate for "open source" and once they have enough free labor and market capture will lock it up to gain control. Publishing companies ransom publicly funded universities for access to their own research. The pharmaceutical industry might as well be the most evil and corrupt in the world, and by god you, nor anyone else is ever going to benefit from any medical innovation, nevertheless get microplastics out of your body until it can get sold back to you, assuming you can even afford it.

If you only care about supporting things as means to your own ends, then that's your deal, but don't act like you're operating on some moral high ground. To me you're just another tool.