No it wont, at least as far as Emacs is concerned.

Nobody is stepping up to do the work, plus Guile has serious bugs on Windows and OSX, single-digit number of developers and few, if any, users. So Guile Emacs is really a pipe dream that people like to bring up from time to time.

> Nobody is stepping up to do the work, plus Guile has serious bugs on Windows and OSX, single-digit number of developers and few, if any, users. So Guile Emacs is really a pipe dream that people like to bring up from time to time.

You forgot to mention that BSD is dying.

This state of affairs is different from any other Lisp implementation how? And why would it stop progress from being made?

I've been happily running SBCL and CCL on Linux and OSX for years without issues. CCL on Windows too.

Guile has 1-2 people working on it part-time, and Windows/OSX are not a priority because:

+ GNU project, duh.

+ Nobody in Guile-land cares about Windows/OSX enough to step up and fix issues.

+ Even if they did, Stallman would tell them not to.

So the state of affairs is indeed very different from the CL Lisp implementations. Not to mention, Guile has pretty much no userbase to speak of. There are commercial entities releasing products with SBCL and CCL in addition to the very healthy opensource community.

> best-supported Lisp Machine operating system analogue

Hardly. GNU is far from anything Lisp Machine. The Lisp Machine was never a system hacked up by scripts running on top of some Unix copy with a fancy name.