Here's news from #emacs and #guile land:

Apparently guilemacs (emacs / emacslisp running on top of guile's VM) is now pretty much entirely working, excepting a couple of caveats: it's noticeably slower due to hacks to get non-lexical-scope stuff to work nicely(sounds like some adjustment to guile fluids will resolve this), and almost everything works except a couple of things that try to be "smart" with bytecode (gnus).

Other than that, seems to be working!

Exciting things about this, assuming it makes it into emacs mainline any time soon:

• This will significantly increase the audience of Guile... there's already plenty of things happening in guile-land at this moment, and I think this will increase that further by a lot. There's lots of interesting elisp hacking going on right now, so...
• Apparently adding new features to elisp is much easier now... BT Templeton reports adding a foreign function interface to elisp in 15 minutes!
• Probably the first real-world use of guile's VM being used by a non-scheme language.