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> does expertise in Guile (base Scheme is trivial) carry over anywhere interesting? If you ever want to embed a dynamic language in a native code program for c
by School-Cotton 3y ago
> does expertise in Guile (base Scheme is trivial) carry over anywhere interesting?
If you ever want to embed a dynamic language in a native code program for configuring/scripting the latter, Guile is a great choice.
- cmm 3y agoIt is, but there already are other choices that are not worse and that are more established
- School-Cotton 3y agoWhat, for example? The only other one I can think of is Lua and IMO it’s quite debatable whether that is more established than Guile.
- cmm 3y agoIt is at least used outside of the GNU Project...
- tomn 3y agoplease compare: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lua/#pkgreqs https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lua/#pkgreqs https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/guile/#pkgreqs https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/guile/#pkgreqs (lua at least is under-counted as there is luajit, lua51, and various packages which embed their own version, e.g. pandoc)