Scheme Is a Hoot
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Scheme Is a Hoot
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Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#2I don't understand.
Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
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#3I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
Presumably to run in the browser? Guile Scheme is great for native programs but you need Hoot to run it in a browser.
Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#4I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
I think the second sentence of the article covers that pretty simply? To run it in the browser with wasm?
> One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot.
Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#5I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
> Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
Scheme is not a thing you use directly, you have to select an implementation. Hoot is one such implementation (targeting execution on WASM).
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Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#7Direct link to Hoot: https://spritely.institute/hoot/
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#8Spritely has been going strong for many years. I suppose Hoot was created to make Goblins [0] available to a broader public via wasm, as a reference implementation of CapTP specification [1]. Wonder what the timeline is, if any exists, for getting this protocol at a maturity level where it is attractive to implement as an open standard.
[0] https://spritely.institute/goblins/
[1] https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/blob/main/draft-specification...
Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#9I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
> Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
In other terms: Why not just use C directly, why use gcc?
Re: Scheme Is a Hoot
#10I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
I think the second sentence of the article covers that pretty simply? To run it in the browser with wasm? > One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot.
Yes, but why? If the purpose is to run Scheme, run Scheme: why jump through Hoots oops I mean hoops.