Re: Chickadee 0.6.0 released

2020-12-27 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Dave, Thompson, David writes: > Most notably it now supports OpenGL 2 (rejoice, old thinkpad users!), > can render TrueType/OpenType fonts, and has preliminary support for 2D > vector graphics. > > See the link below for full release details and download links: > https://dthompson.us/chic

Guile ports

2020-12-27 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
On that note, I would like to mention, how elegant I find Guile's port system. You know, the whole "write to port to write to a file", "write to a string port" (for example when you want to avoid building many temporary in-between strings), "reading from ports", etc.. I've not seen something like

Re: Guile-zstd 0.1.1 released

2020-12-27 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Ludo, that’s pretty cool! Thank you! Looking at the readme I get the feeling that two little helpers could be useful: (call-with-zstd-output-file "compressed.zstd" (lambda (port) (define data ;; Read the input file in memory. (call-with-input-file

Re: vlog about Guile

2020-12-27 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Joshua! I just visited your channel on hardlimit and looked at your videos, positively surprised to also see some web development videos for Guile! Would you create a playlist there, just like you did for your GNU Guix videos? That would make it easier for people to watch your GNU Guile web

Re: Guile-PG 0.49 available

2020-12-27 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions () Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:48:30 -0500 May I ask how this differs from guile-squee? Is it "faster"? Can't say -- i've never used guile-squee, personally. However, a brief scan of the guile-squee homepage tells me that Guile-PG is "more",

Re: Guile-PG 0.49 available

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
May I ask how this differs from guile-squee? Is it "faster"? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
Hey Olivier! I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are some other schemes that are faster, notably chez scheme. I will also say that Andy Wingo (one of the guile maintainers) is working on making guile code "within" an order of magnitude of the speed of C code. I wou

Re: RPX 1.3 available

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
That's awesome! Can you provide some video evidence? haha. :) -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: vlog about Guile

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
I've also been doing guile programming and putting the videos online. It's somewhat educational, in that I try to explain what I do as I do it. But I'm also trying to do things that I do NOT know how to do. Maybe some people will find it useful. https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_bra

Re: guile-redis 2.0.0 released

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
Awesome! I hadn't realized guile supported redis! That's sweet action news! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Re: Chickadee 0.6.0 released

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
Hey hey! I missed this! Congrats on the new release! And as a Thinkpad T400 user, thanks! -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus

Guile-zstd 0.1.1 released

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > I’m pleased to announce the first release of Guile-zstd: Oops, a file was missing from the repo, so here’s a brand new release! git clone https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd cd guile-zstd git checkout v0.1.1 # or f853c8eb81088f8fbf33d38e62cddea9a4984180

Guile-zstd 0.1.0 released

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I’m pleased to announce the first release of Guile-zstd: git clone https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd cd guile-zstd git checkout v0.1.0 # or 0d830f53e2a2bb71799aeda4be7101a09d060f99 git tag -v v0.1.0 The ‘git tag -v’ command checks the authenticity of your checkout. You may n