From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
To: divoplade <d@divoplade.fr>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Status for guile-on-the-web?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:39:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imb1bal6.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1422a451b7fcd1717dd42fec95de0f916fb4e17.camel@divoplade.fr>
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Hi divoplade,
Thank you for bringing this up again!
divoplade <d@divoplade.fr> writes:
> There's a quote I love from the manual [1]:
>
> "Finally, so much of the world’s computation is performed in web
> browsers that it makes sense to ask ourselves what the Guile-on-the-
> web-client story is. With the advent of WebAssembly, there may finally
> be a reasonable compilation target that’s present on almost all user-
> exposed devices. Especially with the upcoming proposals to allow for
> tail calls, delimited continuations, and GC-managed objects, Scheme
> might once again have a place in the web browser. Get to it!"
>
> I just wanted to say that it's a sweet idea.
As far as I know, this is the current state:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-08/msg00070.html
This is for Javascript, though, which misses tail calls. I don’t know
how much work it would be to migrate to webassembly.
Best wishes,
Arne
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