Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
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#2For the uninitiated, how does this compare to guile?
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#3Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
Re: Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
#4Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
A search on "non-blocking garbage collection" turns up almost a million hits.
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#6How does this compare to prescheme from scheme48?
Re: Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
#7Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
Well, it's been happening since the '80s when several OSes were written in ostensibly garbage-collected languages. So it might be a little late to complain.
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#8Can anyone explain why there are so many implementations of Scheme written in Scheme?
What is the point of doing that (apart from learning purposes)?
I know, for example that people want Racket VM to be implemented in Chez Scheme because Chez is super fast. But what about all other implementations?
Also, as I'm currently writing R5RS/Clojure hybrid in Kotlin, can anyone please share any _simple_ standard algorithm of implementing r5rs macro system and macro expander?
The only thing I could find is https://www.cs.indiana.edu/chezscheme/syntax-case/
Re: Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
#9Already a handful of "how does this compare...?" postings but the standard for a systems-programming scheme is scsh, a find abstraction layer over POSIX dating from the nineties.
Re: Gerbil – An opinionated dialect of Scheme designed for systems programming
#10Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
Why do people keep thinking that "systems programming" is a term with a well-defined meaning?
I've seen it used for anything from operating system kernels to database systems to anything that talks to the network to command-line utilities like ls.
Garbage-collected languages are fine for all of these except maybe kernels. But even there, you might use a system that lets you do critical sections in a mode where the GC is disabled, or in a sublanguage that is guaranteed to be GC-free.