Two Years of GNU Guile Scheme 2.0

Two years ago Guile Scheme, the official extension language of the GNU project, released version 2.0, a major upgrade to the implementation. As part of the two year anniversary, the maintainers organized a challenge to hack a small project using Guile in 30 days as part of a birthday software potluck. The two coolest dishes appear to be OpenGL support using the FFI, and XCB bindings built using the XML specification for XCB: "guile-xcb is a language implemented in the Guile VM that parses the XML files used by the xcb project to specify the X protocol and compiles them into Guile modules containing all the methods and data needed to send requests to the X server and receive replies/events back. If new X extensions are added to the xcb library, guile-xcb can compile and add them with no additional work. " See the release announcement for details on the other dishes.

Comments

Dumb

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds stupid and pointless. *golf clap*

Guile supports curly-infix, too!

[dwheeler]

Another cool thing about GNU guile is that the most recent version supports SRFI-105, "curly-infix-expressions", as developed by the Readable Lisp S-expressions Project. Curly-infix expressions let you write stuff like {a + b} instead of (+ a b), which is a big improvement in readability.

Emacs and Guile need each other

[Anonymous Coward]

I've wanted to get into Lisp, but it's frustrating that my everyday GNU environment is split between Guile and Emacs Lisp. I wish that the project, talked about for years, to rewrite Emacs and base it on Guile would take off. It would save Guile, in a sense, because in spite of Scheme's status as the official GNU extension language it tends to be overlooked, and Emacs would benefit greatly from the bindings already developed for Guile.