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Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS
First time accepted submitter Per Bothner (19354) writes "Kawa is a general-purpose Scheme-based programming language that runs on the Java platform. It combines the strengths of dynamic scripting languages (less boiler-plate, fast and easy start-up, a REPL, no required compilation step) with the strengths of traditional compiled languages (fast execution, static error detection, modularity, zero-overhead Java platform integration).
Version 2.0 was just released with many new features. Most notably is (almost) complete support for the latest Scheme specification, R7RS, which was ratified in late 2013. This LWN article contains a brief introduction to Kawa and why it is worth a look."
Version 2.0 was just released with many new features. Most notably is (almost) complete support for the latest Scheme specification, R7RS, which was ratified in late 2013. This LWN article contains a brief introduction to Kawa and why it is worth a look."
But that's the whole point. My employer does everything on the JVM for our production websites and testing. I can't get them to introduce PHP, Basic, Pascal, Ada, Perl, Haskell, OCaml, or Fortran for anything. I also can't get them to seriously consider CPython, native Ruby, SBCL (Lisp), or DrScheme.
:)
But if I want to introduce JRuby, Jython, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, or Javascript (available in the JVM via Rhino in older versions of Java and via Nashorn in Java 7), I can get consideration.
So I suspect Kawa is an attempt to build a Scheme developers can use at work, for production, without convincing the CTO to scrap the existing JVM-based technology stack and starting over from square one. I wish them good luck. I haven't looked at Kawa yet, I'm still hoping to get my boss to look at Clojure.