If you make something, please let us know! :)

Daniel Skinner <dan...@dasa.cc> writes:

> Have been watching hoot to play around with webgl and miniaudio for some
> audio/visual fun, thanks for the release!
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:09 PM Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Guilers!
>>
>> On behalf of the Spritely Institute, I'm happy to announce that Guile
>> Hoot v0.2.0 has been released! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly
>> compiler backend for Guile, which means you can now run Scheme in the
>> browser for real, tail calls and all.
>>
>> The highlights of this release are:
>>
>> * Nearly all of R7RS-small is now implemented! Hoot 0.2.0 is now
>> capable of running many more standard Scheme programs than 0.1.0.
>>
>> * A foreign function interface (FFI) has been added to make it easy to
>> declare imported host functions and call them from Scheme.
>>
>> * User-defined record types, sorely missing from 0.1.0, have been added.
>>
>> Read the full release notes here:
>> https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v020-released.html
>>
>> If you use Guix then it's easy to try out Hoot:
>>
>>     guix pull
>>     guix shell guile-next guile-hoot
>>
>> But wait, there's more! I've been busy writing up a tutorial for using
>> Hoot to make React-like web pages, and that is also available now:
>>
>>
>> https://spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html
>>
>> If you're curious what it looks like to integrate Scheme with
>> JavaScript browser APIs then definitely check out that post.
>>
>> Okay, that's all for now.  Happy hooting!
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>>


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