[tex-live] Difficulties in Rewriting the Core TeX WEB Code

[Martin Schröder]

2016-11-13 23:14 GMT+01:00 Jayesh Badwaik <public at jayeshbadwaik.in>:
> My feeling is, it would be better to have the core TeX WEB code in a more
> modern format, however the idea apparently has very little traction (most
> probably due to very good reasons).

There is LuaTeX, which contains TeX's WEB code translated to C and improved.

Which problem do you want to solve?

Best
   Martin

PS: Note that we already have code for random numbers in Metafont (and
MetaPost, pdfTeX and LuaTeX).