Hey Guilers! On behalf of the Spritely Institute, I'm happy to announce that Guile Hoot v0.2.0 has been released! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, which means you can now run Scheme in the browser for real, tail calls and all.
The highlights of this release are: * Nearly all of R7RS-small is now implemented! Hoot 0.2.0 is now capable of running many more standard Scheme programs than 0.1.0. * A foreign function interface (FFI) has been added to make it easy to declare imported host functions and call them from Scheme. * User-defined record types, sorely missing from 0.1.0, have been added. Read the full release notes here: https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v020-released.html If you use Guix then it's easy to try out Hoot: guix pull guix shell guile-next guile-hoot But wait, there's more! I've been busy writing up a tutorial for using Hoot to make React-like web pages, and that is also available now: https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html If you're curious what it looks like to integrate Scheme with JavaScript browser APIs then definitely check out that post. Okay, that's all for now. Happy hooting! - Dave
