From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile status. Some questions to adopt usage as embedded game. Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:50:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87vbv257gf.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395780647 6811 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 20:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:50:47 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 21:50:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYJ7-000680-G5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:50:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44190 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYJ7-0004eA-4r for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYIn-0004d1-OZ for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYIh-0001BS-Kq for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:50:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYIh-0001BE-ES for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSYIf-0005a6-FX for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:50:21 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:50:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 5 Germinal an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IS7PfxrFsfoi9cTNjCXMIrNk16Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11161 Archived-At: Hi, Germán Diago skribis: > 1.- How mature is Ecmascript support? I don't care much about feature > completeness, but more about robustness (reasonably bug-free) and ready to > be used by designers. The ECMAscript front-end is not mature. It needs love. :-) > 2.- Is there any real project using Ecmascript guile at the moment? Not that I know of. > 3.- What is the lua status? Any tentative dates for when it would be > supported and how good it would be? This is important since in the gaming > area Lua is the standard scripting language. It may be better, but hasn’t been merged yet. I think Ian Price looked at it a while back. Ian? > 4.- When writing a FFI from C++ functions, I know how guile code will > look, but I couldn't find any Ecmascript mapping documentation. Any > pointers where I could find something? In theory it should be possible to import and use Scheme functions from ECMAscript. See . > 5.- (Not too important as of now) There is support for a windows native > guile? If there is not, can be compiled at least with MinGW (not cygwin)? Apparently Guile 2.0.11 runs on MinGW. HTH! Ludo’.