Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Mikael Djurfeldt <mik...@djurfeldt.com> writes: > >> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM >> 2019. Thank you all! > > Thank you, too! > >> Now a piece of advice. >> >> Everyone who works with Guile knows that it's crap and look with envy at >> projects like Chez and Racket, right? > > I’ll ignore for a moment that this is a rhethoric method and answer > directly: No, I don’t think that Guile is crap. It is actually really > good, and while there are missing parts, I enjoy working in Guile more > than I enjoy working in Python. Even when I use parentheses :-) > > The talk by Christopher Webber basically described the importance of > shiny — all the bits other people already polished. A similar argument > cuts for using Python, and even Java. > > This does not make it invalid: Chris is right that shiny is important; > but it is not all-important, especially not in the long run. And > different from many other projects, Guile takes the long run seriously.
Oops, I misquoted Arne as Janneke in my last email... my bad. :)
