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Between this and things like Guix and Hoot, sometimes I feel like I could find incredible peace and happiness if I just sold all my possessions and moved into t

Between this and things like Guix and Hoot, sometimes I feel like I could find incredible peace and happiness if I just sold all my possessions and moved into the Guile monestary, so to speak.

davexunit 2y ago
Wow that's some high praise. For anyone wondering, Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler that is really cool (and also I'm one of the devs and also I don't live in a monastery.) https://spritely.institute/hoot/ https://spritely.institute/hoot/
- beepbooptheory 2y ago
  I'm just a lurker but ty guys so much, doing really exciting things imo! As I waste away a little in VC startup world, yall are one of the handful of things that give me hope with all this computer/internet stuff we are working on all the time.
  - davexunit 2y ago
    I worked at regular software companies for quite some time before Spritely, so no judgement here. I hope you can get the sort of job that is fulfilling to you, though! I'm glad we can give you some hope. :)
eadmund 2y ago
I really wish folks building these things in Scheme would build them instead in Lisp. Common Lisp is a better language for systems, despite a few design decisions which turn out to have been howling mistakes (the single worst is the default reader upcasing).
- Y_Y 2y ago
  As it happens this is also one of the goals of Guile Emacs. Rather than relying on the now-popular cl-lib, it should be possible to use Common Lisp just as you would use Emacs Lisp or Guile (the language) because it would be implemented as part of Guile (the software/compiler tower).
  - eadmund 2y ago
    I don’t want to be able to use Common Lisp in addition to Emacs Lisp or Guile Scheme. I want to be able to use only Common Lisp, never Scheme or C. I do not want to ever have to see #include (C) or #f (Scheme) in any project.
    - Y_Y 2y ago
      It should be possible to do everything equivalently from any of the supported languages. But unless you rewrite everyone else's code you may still have to acknowledge the languages you don't like. Perhaps you'd prefer Lem? https://github.com/lem-project/lem https://github.com/lem-project/lem

Between this and things like Guix and Hoot, sometimes I feel like I could find incredible peace and happiness if I just sold all my possessions and moved into the Guile monestary, so to speak.

davexunit 2y ago

Wow that's some high praise. For anyone wondering, Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler that is really cool (and also I'm one of the devs and also I don't live in a monastery.) https://spritely.institute/hoot/ https://spritely.institute/hoot/

beepbooptheory 2y ago
I'm just a lurker but ty guys so much, doing really exciting things imo! As I waste away a little in VC startup world, yall are one of the handful of things that give me hope with all this computer/internet stuff we are working on all the time.
- davexunit 2y ago
  I worked at regular software companies for quite some time before Spritely, so no judgement here. I hope you can get the sort of job that is fulfilling to you, though! I'm glad we can give you some hope. :)

eadmund 2y ago

I really wish folks building these things in Scheme would build them instead in Lisp. Common Lisp is a better language for systems, despite a few design decisions which turn out to have been howling mistakes (the single worst is the default reader upcasing).

Y_Y 2y ago
As it happens this is also one of the goals of Guile Emacs. Rather than relying on the now-popular cl-lib, it should be possible to use Common Lisp just as you would use Emacs Lisp or Guile (the language) because it would be implemented as part of Guile (the software/compiler tower).
- eadmund 2y ago
  I don’t want to be able to use Common Lisp in addition to Emacs Lisp or Guile Scheme. I want to be able to use only Common Lisp, never Scheme or C. I do not want to ever have to see #include (C) or #f (Scheme) in any project.
  - Y_Y 2y ago
    It should be possible to do everything equivalently from any of the supported languages. But unless you rewrite everyone else's code you may still have to acknowledge the languages you don't like. Perhaps you'd prefer Lem? https://github.com/lem-project/lem https://github.com/lem-project/lem