Am Sa., 18. Jan. 2020 um 15:14 Uhr schrieb Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: > > Hello Guilers! > > The Guile logo has this “GNU extension language” baseline. As Guile 3 > came out, this baseline felt odd to me, not quite corresponding to the > way I see Guile. > > 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.
Well, you forgot LilyPond > 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. > > Thus, I’d propose changing the baseline. Something that would describe > what Guile is to me is: > > GNU, fast, fun, functional > > What’s about you? What’s Guile to you? :-) > > Ludo’. Well, for me, Guile's _the_ extension language for my LilyPond. It may be more, it may have become more. And yes, I used Guile for some other stuff as well. Nevertheless, it remains the language to extend LilyPond. It feels very strange dropping said phrase. Cheers, Harm
