Seriously. There’s so many floating around. It feels like there’s a cycle of
Random programmer thinks xyz language sucks -> she/he makes a slightly different, slightly faster, slightly more secure version -> by luck this gains mass adoption-> random programmer thinks new xyz language sucks
I propose when the revolution comes and the last guillotine falls we decide a general-purpose programming language that coders should stick to. I vote Lisp or any of the dialects (scheme, clojure, racket), but i also feel something about the Julia language for scientific research. Maybe we can decriminalize using C. Absolutely ban and hunt down the use of any of the hipster languages teenagers are into these days.
Nim? Zig? Crystal?? I am absolutely losing my damn mind. It compiles to bytecode people. Make up ur damn minds. To jail with all of u
Yes. It can. But I believe some other Schemes can actually do this better, and the Scheme->JavaScript implementation for Guile is beyond, beyond unfinished.
You’ll proboably have a better time with Guile Hoot, which compiles Scheme to WASM. It’s also unfinished, but it’s much more complete and currently making a lot of progress. It’s meant to allow Goblins, an actor-based decentralized framework by the same people that made ActivityPub (Spritely Institute), to run on the web.
Also Guile’s lead developer, and Hoot’s project lead, Andy Wingo, may or may not be a Marxist - reading his blog, and watching some of his talks, I’ve noticed some references to Hegel and Lenin, but I’m not quite sure on this. He’s also called out sexism at various developer conferences he’s been to, from GNU Hackers’ meetings to FOSDEM.
Did I mention Guile is a GNU Project?
Upon further reading, I conclude that he is based
Quote from his blog
He also makes a reference to “What is to be done?” in one of his talks. Or maybe it was a blog post. It was somewhere.
Anyways, what do you think?
Oh snapp
Andy Wingo’s Blog
He also works at a cooperative, Igalia.