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the website looks great. But it's always so confusing that GNU's language of choice doesn't seem to be used by anyone. The marquee projects listed as using guil
by ambulancechaser 11y ago
the website looks great. But it's always so confusing that GNU's language of choice doesn't seem to be used by anyone. The marquee projects listed as using guile seemed a little underwhelming
- pjmlp 11y agoIt is a Scheme implementation. At very least many universities do use Scheme.
- ambulancechaser 11y agoits a flavor of scheme. But it was made to be the language of extension in GNU projects. I've just never heard of anyone actually using it. And the projects that seemed to have embraced it seem rather small for the banner or marquee projects on their website.
- rekado 11y agoThere's also Lilypond (lots of Guile) and Gimp (a little bit of Guile), which are both pretty well-known projects. Guix itself is a large project. GDB has Guile scripting support as well. The website could feature a few more projects.
- djcb 11y agoThere are also gdb and make, which are probably a bit more prominent examples of guile-integration. Perhaps one day, emacs will do so as well. I've embedded Guile into some of my own projects, and it's a great and fun way to bring a bit of life in "dead" compiled code. Many more projects would benefit from this.
- jordigh 11y agoIt was chosen as the language of the GNU project in the mid 1980's. It's just taken a while to gain adoption. :-) 2016 will be the year of Guile on GNU/Hurd.
- agumonkey 11y agoIt had some kind of BSD moment IIRC. Just when it was supposed to catch on, something pulled the rug and it was set back a decade. Slowly coming back to light I guess.