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Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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It's such an amazing project, I wish it used something other than Guile but you can't have everything.

Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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It's such an amazing project, I wish it used something other than Guile but you can't have everything.

Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

Guiles debugging has been a nightmare in the 3.x series. Which is rather surprising since it was probably the easiest scheme to debug in the 1.x days.

It got so bad I moved to racket as my daily driver.

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

Guiles debugging has been a nightmare in the 3.x series. Which is rather surprising since it was probably the easiest scheme to debug in the 1.x days. It got so bad I moved to racket as my daily driver.

Which LLM works best for Racket?

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

Guiles debugging has been a nightmare in the 3.x series. Which is rather surprising since it was probably the easiest scheme to debug in the 1.x days. It got so bad I moved to racket as my daily driver.

Can you say more? Guile's the only scheme I've tried (attempts at packaging for Guix). Debugging has been difficult, but I figured it was me struggling with new tools and API. Does racket have better facilities for introspection or discovery at the REPL?

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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It's such an amazing project, I wish it used something other than Guile but you can't have everything.

Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

A different scheme that has great debugging and testing and also better docs.

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other than Guile as in different Scheme implementations? It's usually not too difficult to port things between Schemes. Especially if you use standard R6RS or R7RS library syntax.

Guiles debugging has been a nightmare in the 3.x series. Which is rather surprising since it was probably the easiest scheme to debug in the 1.x days. It got so bad I moved to racket as my daily driver.

Even better than PLT Scheme with Dr. Scheme, now Raket has ever been?

I have my doubts, given its age.

Re: Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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Guiles debugging has been a nightmare in the 3.x series. Which is rather surprising since it was probably the easiest scheme to debug in the 1.x days. It got so bad I moved to racket as my daily driver.

Can you say more? Guile's the only scheme I've tried (attempts at packaging for Guix). Debugging has been difficult, but I figured it was me struggling with new tools and API. Does racket have better facilities for introspection or discovery at the REPL?

Yes, since years, all the way when it was still known as Dr. Scheme.

It has a graphical experience similar to the survivors from Lisp is Great days, like LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp, or Clojure with Cursive.

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