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I wish Chicken Scheme could be ported to Windows without the Posix dependencies. I run it on my Linux box, but unfortunately, work is all Windows. I have had y
by eggy 8y ago
I wish Chicken Scheme could be ported to Windows without the Posix dependencies. I run it on my Linux box, but unfortunately, work is all Windows. I have had years of frustration with Cygwin and MinGW or MSYS to run such things. I use Red [1] now, which is homoiconic like Lisp, has a great parser, and runs on all platforms with an executable under 1 MB.
[1] https://www.red-lang.org/ https://www.red-lang.org/
- e12e 8y agoYou use Red? Not just play with it? Could you share some details? As for posix subsystems on windows, they're indeed painful. But the new Linux emulation layer is quite good - in some cases it might be a viable option.
- eggy 8y agoUse for me is writing small utilities for work. I am not a programmer, but I work in entertainment engineering, and Red has proven useful for making all sorts of utilities to get my job done. I am currently trying to use Red to create the GUI and glue some other utilities I use together. I hope to get better at it to create full applications. Amazing for its size, and I've always loved Lisp and Forth.
- bananicorn 8y agoWait, does the Red gui work under linux now? According to their Roadmap it doesn't yet - but maybe it just hasn't been updated for the last half year...