On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 01:36, Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smie...@interia.pl> wrote:
> Hello, > > I would like to make my project in Guile, but I'm not really an > advanced programmer yet - I made some hello worlds in C++, simple 2D > and 3D games in JS using WebGL and I've read basics of Guile from the > manual and Scheme generally from SICP (few chapters) and other sources, > made some really simple programs in Guile and packages for Guix. > > The problem is I don't know where to start and which parts of the > language and features of GNU/Linux I have to understand well in order > to at least make a prototype. > > The project idea is a distributed and extensible DE and GUI toolkit > treating its elements as objects (something like the UNIX philosophy). > I would like to use Wayland, or if possible wlroots, but there are no > Guile bindings available. > > So for the project I need: > - a wayland client written in Guile, wlroots (foreign function > interface?) I need to talk to the wayland server somehow > - a good interprocess communication - I want different components of my > DE / GUI toolkit to be separated processes talking to each other > (POSIX socets?) > > Sorry for my vague understanding of the subject, I'm not studying CS. > I would like to know what should I read/know to make this real. > Where can I read about programming for an UNIX-like OS? > Can I avoid learning C/C++ deeply? I know basics of C syntax, but > I would like to do everything in Scheme, you know, it's much cooler :) > > > Thanks for reading this > > Jan Wielkiewicz > Hi Jan, You don't need specially coded Wayland bindings for Guile. You can use Guile's generic Foreign Function Interface [1]. For an example, see [2], although that particular code might be outdated as I haven't run it for a while. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Foreign-Function-Interface.html#Foreign-Function-Interface [2] http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/ossaulib.git/tree/glib/dbus.scm Best wishes, Neil
