Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

[Amirouche <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

Le 16/02/2017 à 20:18, sirgazil a écrit :
> Amirouche says:
>> What block you from contributing to the wide ecosystem of GNU Guile?
> I think about Guile (and GuixSD) almost every day, but I don't contribute as much as I'd like mostly because of lack of resources to do so. Sadly, it's hard to find the opportunity to immerse yourself in libre projects.
>
> As for how to make GNU Guile more successful, I'd like to see what I call a "Hello Guile" series of guides targeted at people who just want to start programming. The series would include:
>
> + Hello Guile: Getting Started (An overview of programming, and how to start with Guile)
> + Hello Guile: Let's develop a console application
> + Hello Guile: Let's develop a desktop application
> + Hello Guile: Let's develop a web application
> + Hello Guile: Let's develop a 2D game
> + Hello Guile: Let's package your software for distribution
>
> Additionally, I'd like the following:
>
> + More high level libraries [1]
> + Add Guile to the GNOME Developer Center [2][3][4]
> + Package more guile libraries in Guix
>
> Finally, we need to clone a bunch of people to do all this work :)
>
>
> [1]: For example, I'm following the Systematic Program Design course with
> Gregor Kiczales. The course uses DrRacket for interactive
> programming and a language called BSL (Beginning Student
> Language).
>
> When I started, my plan was to follow the course in Guile instead,
> since the course is about the design method, and not the tools, but
> I had to stop very early when I had to do some projects involving
> graphics and animation.
>
> Personally, I don't feel the need for something like DrRacket,
> but it would have been nice to be able to find a Guile "canvas" or a
> 2D game library to play easily with basic graphics and animations.
> [2]: https://developer.gnome.org/
> [3]: https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/stable/
> [4]: https://developer.gnome.org/references (see Language Bindings section)
>
>
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I have to +1 all of this post.