Hi, Blake Shaw schreef op ma 20-12-2021 om 03:05 [+0700]: > personally I've been programming for about 15 years now but my career > has been entirely in new media (video, graphics, audio), so while > I've > worked with plenty of lower-level libraries over the years, I didn't > start to get an itch for compilers until covid happened. I was also > doing a PhD in philosophy of mathematics at the time (which I've > postponed indefinitely to prevent being separated from my partner > during > covid travel craziness) so I definitely think I have the *potential* > to > contribute to a project like Guile, its just a matter of finding the > time to read some compiler books (which usually are neither short nor > easy!).
I want to note that, while definitely the compiler part is an important part of Guile, there's plenty of non-compiler and non-language things in Guile as well, so reading compiler books should be unnecessary to contribute to Guile. E.g., things like getopt (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32154), the HTTP API (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43711), a bug fix in the test suite (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43521) (verified to work, for almost a year!). Anyway, I would like to help when I get back to hacking, although I'd have a (non-Guile) backlog to work through first, and there would be some other projects I'd be working on as well. Greetings, Maxime.
