Hi! > So my question is, who here wants to lead a Chicken project? Meaning, a > project based on your interest. The goal would be to get other people > to join your project, under your leadership.
I'm already leading a Chicken project. It is called Adamantix. The long-term goal is to redesign and improve the complete operating system using (Chicken) Scheme. I know there are several other projects with similar goals. But they try to reimplement from scratch. But I think incremental improvement is a much better strategy. Currently the focus is on improving security. What makes security cool in my opinion is that the problems are difficult to solve. And because you cannot solve it by just applying mathematics or reasoning about it, because it involves machines as well as human beings (and more importantly, their perceptions and expectations). That means it requires creativity and courage too. This involves work at not only the application level, but also at the system library and kernel levels. It would be particularly cool if it would be possible to develop compiled Linux kernel modules in Scheme (and yes, I am aware of Schemix). Kernel programming is tedious and error prone. Scheme could make it a lot easier and reliable. It would also make Scheme the only language other than C which can be used to program the Linux kernel. That would make Scheme unique. And I am working on infrastructure for distributing Chicken packages for different Linux distributions. Groetjes, Peter. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
