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It seems like if Racket-Chez continues to track Cisco-Chez that it won't really matter and we can continue to live under one roof. I'll read the Racket on Chez

It seems like if Racket-Chez continues to track Cisco-Chez that it won't really matter and we can continue to live under one roof. I'll read the Racket on Chez papers. Are there plans for more backends? RISC-V, Wasm or Scheme (not Chez specific)? Wasm would be interesting as that would also enable a path to integrate with Graal. I understand that Wasm doesn't yet support native tail calls, so that would have to have to be addressed. > A Racket-implemented layer of Racket CS must be translated to Scheme to run on top of Chez Scheme. That contract between Racket and Chez for how Racket runs on Chez, I think that is fairly interesting from a language engineering perspective. It seems like it could be a nice RRRS (Revised Report on Racket on Scheme). What are your thoughts on Shen?

samth 6y ago
Paulo Matos is working on a RISC-V backend. Wasm would be very nice to have; I think compile-to-web is a big missing piece although there are potentially other ways to do it. For Graal I think a direct implementation would be nice. Compiling to other Schemes would be great, and I think we're in a good position to make that happen now. I think the contract isn't that interesting in a sense -- it's just most of Chez. But the paper does talk about that sort of thing.