Hi all - I’m looking for a few testers to bang on a project I’ve been working
on. It's a re-architected version of WeScheme, in which the Racket->Bytecode
compilation is done entirely on the client (once the editor loads, you can
switch off the wifi and hack away!).
The local compiler has actually been running inside WeScheme.org
<http://wescheme.org/> for several months now, silently comparing bytecodes
against those generated by the server and logging any discrepancies or crashes
to a spreadsheet I’ve reached a point where the number of _known_ bugs is down
to zero, but unfortunately...
The vast majority of programs compiled on WeScheme are pretty simple, which
means insufficient test coverage for things like letrec, case, and local.That’s
where you come in!
TO TEST:
1) Open www.WeScheme.org/openEditor <http://www.wescheme.org/openEditor> in one
tab (“control”)
2) Open http://local.wescheme.appspot.com/openEditor
<http://local.wescheme.appspot.com/openEditor> in another tab (“experiment”)
3) Run your program in the “control” tab, to make sure it’s something that the
server compiler handles properly. (Note: WeScheme only handles a subset of ASL,
so if a program doesn’t run here then you can be certain it is not supported by
the local compiler either).
4) Run your program in the “experiment” tab. If you see unexpected behavior,
differing output, locusts, drought, famine, etc, send me an email with the
program and the browser/OS that you’re using.
Any crashes or exceptions raised by the local compiler are automatically logged
to a spreadsheet, but feel free to email me about those too, if you like.
Thanks!
Emmanuel Schanzer
(Major props to Danny for his original compiler, which has been an absolute
workhorse for us these past five years. Thanks also to Dan King, who has
contributed to both the number library and the reading/compilation of quoted
expressions.)
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