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The compiler. That’s the gem of the system. The generated C is reasonably portable, so you can run Scheme programs on systems that “don’t run Scheme”.
by whartung 2mo ago
The compiler. That’s the gem of the system.
The generated C is reasonably portable, so you can run Scheme programs on systems that “don’t run Scheme”.
- ziotom78 2mo agoAbsolutely. And eggs too [1]: these are libraries provided by the community, very easy to import and use. [1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs
- rmunn 2mo agoWhat happens if you try to run Python eggs under Chicken? Do you get Roko's Basilisk? :-)
- sph 2mo agoPythons are too cold to hatch Chicken eggs, and viceversa
- shakna 2mo agoJust to run with the joke - one project I worked on was a CPython extension. We used Chicken to build out our library to do some rather hacky things and bring async/await to Python before it supported it. And we did call it basilisk.