Hi, As some of you will know, I am implementing a guile->js backend as part of Google Summer of Code. This is a small update so that those of you who do hang out on the guile irc channel can see some of the (small) progress.
A temporary git branch is available at https://gitlab.com/ijp/guile/commits/compile-to-js I'm not going to list all the reasons you shouldn't use this code yet, suffice to say you shouldn't. It's so far before alpha it's not even funny. That said, code you can compile today includes multiple values [1], mutual recursion [2] and using call/cc to escape early from a loop [3]. 1. scheme: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/merge.html js: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/merge-js.html 2. scheme: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/even.html js: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/even-js.html 3. scheme: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/product.html js: http://shift-reset.com/pastes/product-js.html To make the examples self-contained and runnable in node.js, I included the code from module/language/js-il/runtime.js, assigned the result to a var and call console.log, and beautified it with uglifyjs for good measure. The actual output of "guild compile --to=javascript foo.scm" can be found between the comments. -- Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
