On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 10:14 PM Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello Guilers! > Clearly, Guile is still an extension language, with many great > applications (Gnucash, Lepton-EDA, OpenCog, GDB, etc.), and I’m sure > libguile is here to stay. Yet, to me, “extension language” does not > accurately capture what Guile today allows for and what people have been > doing with it; since 2.0, it’s more than an extension language, even > more so with the performance afforded by Guile 3. > > That's true, "GNU extension language" is just part of its features right now. And the "extension language" can't define Guile anymore, because Guile is a productive implementation of Scheme programming language, a web development language, a system level scripting language, and a platform to support several different dynamic languages. > Thus, I’d propose changing the baseline. Something that would describe > what Guile is to me is: > > GNU, fast, fun, functional > > Although functional is just one of facinating features of Guile Scheme, it's still a good selling point to introduce it to other people. > What’s about you? What’s Guile to you? :-) > > Guile is a modern Scheme implementation that can solve real problems in the industry. There's a joke that Scheme is the only language that the number of implementations are more than the users. But I would say, Guile can help people to solve real program in product level. And as some people here may know, I've been always a big fan to treat Guile as a platform for various language transpilers. I don't know what's the proper slogan now, to me, Guile is more like a hacking engine rather than a language. Best regards.
