On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 2:44 PM Christine Lemmer-Webber < cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> Bigloo is cool. I think it falls under the same category of Chicken, > which I address towards the end of: > > https://dustycloud.org/blog/guile-steel-smelting-pot/ > > "Chicken Scheme compiles to C but doesn't strike me as qualifying for > this post's vague definition because it still has the usual > memory/dynamic typing overheads of Scheme. But go ahead and read > literally everything on more-magic.net anyway because that stuff is > great." > > Same feels like it could be said of Bigloo, but if I'm wrong, lmk :) > perhaps i'm wrong, but Chicken seems to have strict types as options: http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Types about Bigloo the best answer would be to ask to author himself but i used Bigloo a little to produce JVM class files only, not C obj files , and it can be declared some statically typed variable i think in both C and Java targets: see: https://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/manual.html#G82 and mostly: https://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/manual-chapter25.html Regards, Damien > > > Damien Mattei <damien.mat...@gmail.com> writes: > > > perhaps Bigloo a Scheme that targets C and has many other features can > help: > > https://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/ > > Damien > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 5:38 PM Christine Lemmer-Webber < > cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > > > > A little blogpost this morning, not actual software, but software > > desiderata: > > https://dustycloud.org/blog/guile-steel-proposal/ > > > > I'd love to see something like the above happen. I'd love to help make > > it happen. So this is more of a call to arms than anything else. > > > > Can we have a "systems lisp"? Can we do better than Rust? Let's put > > some interesting things on that compiler tower of ours! > >
