Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 2, 2012 @07:40AM from the this-is-the-future-1999-promised-me dept.

In a posting to the Guile developers list today, it was announced that the Emacs-Lisp compiler for Guile has matured enough to run actual elisp programs. The author included a screencast demoing the new compiler running the Dunnet dungeon crawler. It is still a bit hackish: you need a load file that fakes a few Emacs side functions. In theory, most batch mode programs that don't do buffer manipulation should now work. After a few previous attempts, things could be on track for GNU Emacs 25 based on Guile.

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Re:Has anyone embedded Guile? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-02 09:23 · Score: 4, Informative

TeXmacs and Lilypond also embed Guile.
Re:Has anyone embedded Guile? by Michael+Duggan · 2012-04-02 09:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Lilypond uses Guile extensively, and as time goes on, more and more of its code has been moving from C++ to Guile. For those not in the know, Lilypond is a typesetting program for music.