Status for guile-on-the-web?

Status for guile-on-the-web?

[divoplade]

Dear guile users,

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.


[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Status.html

Best regards,

divoplade

Re: Status for guile-on-the-web?

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

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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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