From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: FOSDEM 2019 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:44:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87o97rsje0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="258651"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 04 15:52:46 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfc5-0015BQ-Mw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:52:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfc4-00071J-G0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfaS-00066m-8Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfUQ-0006GL-3i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:44:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41838 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfUP-0006Cd-S8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqfUL-000vlc-BV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:44:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 =?utf-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 227 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:eqhBs1SYlCxkqPzol1t1u47ZIXo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19819 Archived-At: Hello Mikael! Mikael Djurfeldt skribis: > It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM > 2019. Thank you all! Seconded, that was awesome! Meeting Guilers, both newcomers and old-timers :-), was just great! > Everyone who works with Guile knows that it's crap and look with envy at > projects like Chez and Racket, right? Actually, while there are many things I like about Racket (Typed Racket, DrRacket, and the wealth of available libraries come to mind), I’m also very happy with Guile and everything that’s been going on around it lately! Things like Gash/Geesh, nyacc, MesCC (we have a C compiler in Guile!), libfive, Haunt, Mumi (which runs at ), the picture language, the many bindings that came into existence over the last couple of years (parted, newt, GIR, Git, etc.), and of course Guix… I think we can all be very happy with how our community and software has been growing! There are many Scheme implementations out there, but few can pride themselves on having seen this much activity lately. I also consider it a strength that Guile is very much connected to the practical GNU/Linux environment and not insulated like so many programming language implementations. The amazing work Andy has been putting into Guile to keep improving it is another reason to be excited about Guile, this year maybe more than ever. I do wish more of us were joining Andy on that journey, but maybe 2019 is the year to make it happen! So… I’m just super excited about Guile, and I bet I’m not the only one. Chris Webber, Andy, Janneke, myself, and a couple of other people talked about this yesterday at FOSDEM, and we agree that we must work on increasing the bandwidth with Racketeers. As it turns out, Chris in the right position to do that: we almost tricked him into writing a Racket package importer for Guix and perhaps, who knows, toying with the idea of #lang guile in Racket. :-) Happy hacking, Guilers! Ludo’.