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From: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: 61243@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#61243] Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:48:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1peq5as.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfYDch=_K2d3q=WYjUYPO_qozsFYj30MWCxi9VCxoUhDhQ@mail.gmail.com>

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> This set of 4 patches adds WASM-4 (https://wasm4.org/), a fantasy
> console that runs game "cartridges" compiled to WebAssembly.  It's a
> fun way to learn about WebAssembly using a relatively simple system.
> I've seen a WASM-4 game that was assembled using Racket, which I
> thought was pretty neat.  It would be even cooler if someone did
> something like that with Guile!

Wouldn't it be cool indeed?  I wonder if we can see progress on this in
Guile-land?  Maybe someone should take up the torch for the Guile and
WASM story.

> Packaging this thing was not exactly straightforward due to dependency
> bundling via git submodules, but I was able to unbundle everything.

Impressive!  This doesn't look like it was easy to figure out.

I reviewed all four patches.  Despite some custom stuff on most of
these, they all look well commented and sensible.  I say push it!

 - Christine





  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-02 23:31 [bug#61243] Add WASM-4 fantasy console and prerequisites Thompson, David
2023-02-03 12:48 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber [this message]
2023-02-03 13:11   ` Thompson, David
2023-02-04  9:43 ` dan

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