Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-10-06 Thread Nala Ginrut
I'm looking forward to it, and I'm pretty sure this can bring new possibilities to Artanis! Best regards. On Sun, Jun 20, 2021, 04:21 Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi :) > > A brain-dump tonight. I was thinking about what it would mean for Guile > to target the web. The goal would be for Guile to be a

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-10-06 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Andy Wingo writes: > Anyway, thoughts welcome. Happy hacking :) This sounds great — thank you! I personally would already be happy if I could start by replacing my small biwascheme utility by guile-based webassembly: https://www.draketo.de/software/matrikellanguage.scm Currently used via

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-10-06 Thread Christine Lemmer-Webber
Chris Lemmer-Webber writes: > O M G! So excited to read this email. Yes! So, re-poiking this thread. I'm still just as excited as I was when I sent this some time ago! Any updates? How can we help? Can we test things? Poke at something? Contribute something?' I'm excited for this future!

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-06-20 Thread Maxime Devos
Chris Lemmer-Webber schreef op zo 20-06-2021 om 10:14 [-0400]: > Weakmaps are a thing these days I think: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/WeakMap Nice, though it doesn't allow enumerating keys (which is reasonable enough in practice) and it doesn'

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-06-20 Thread Chris Lemmer-Webber
Maxime Devos writes: > Andy Wingo schreef op za 19-06-2021 om 22:20 [+0200]: >> 5. Garbage collection. *We should re-use the host GC*. Although it >> would be possible to manage a heap in linear memory, that has >> retention problems due to cycles between the Guile heap and the JS >>

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-06-20 Thread Maxime Devos
Andy Wingo schreef op za 19-06-2021 om 22:20 [+0200]: > 5. Garbage collection. *We should re-use the host GC*. Although it > would be possible to manage a heap in linear memory, that has > retention problems due to cycles between the Guile heap and the JS > heap. I could be mistaken

Re: thoughts on targetting the web

2021-06-19 Thread Chris Lemmer-Webber
O M G! So excited to read this email. Yes! Andy Wingo writes: > Hi :) > > A brain-dump tonight. I was thinking about what it would mean for Guile > to target the web. The goal would be for Guile to be a useful language > for programming client-side interaction on web pages. Now, there are a

thoughts on targetting the web

2021-06-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi :) A brain-dump tonight. I was thinking about what it would mean for Guile to target the web. The goal would be for Guile to be a useful language for programming client-side interaction on web pages. Now, there are a number of takes for Schemes of various stripes to target JS. I haven't mad