Sounds great! Congratulations! :-) On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 9:09 PM Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu> wrote:
> 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 > >
