On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:30:15PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Initially in Guile I planned to use GNU Lightning, in part because of
> > its great platform support.  However it turned out to not be the right
> > thing, and reluctantly I ended up doing something that was more like a
> > rewrite than a refactor.
> [...]
> > If someone would like to write an IA64 backend for Lightening, I would
> 
> So, do I understand correctly that Light*e*ning is the name you chose
> for Guile's rewrite of GNU Lightning?
> 
> Do you think it could be useful separately from Guile?

There's some infornmative text here:

https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/05/24/lightening-run-time-code-generation

Cheers
-- tomás