Hey Guilers~ Happy new year! I wonder if it's the proper time to consider the plan in 2013, but let me raise such a topic since it'll be talked sooner or later.
We have registerVM & guile-Emacs as planed in last year, I believe their first release will be done in this year (correct me if I'm too optimistic). I tried to implement an naive AOT-compiler but found that I'd better wait for the rtl-wip branch finished. For guile-Emacs, I failed to compile it, but I believe it's almost done. So far so good! I'd like to list my expectations here, for a reference: 1. Guildhall I think guildhall works now, at least in experimental. If we can build it's official site ASAP, folks could contribute their interesting packages into it. Along with the passion, the community become active soon. I believe Guile2 have come to a stage that could be used for practical work. IMO, the only problem is that we don't have enough lib/package, guildhall is the prerequisite for that. I realize that we can't add all their needs into ice-9, right? Maybe we could discuss the management policy or package convention in advance? 2. Guile wiki Guile manual is one of the most excellent book for me, but for a manual, it can't cover all the usage details, and it's improper to share the practical experiences each other. Though we have good mail-list, it's hard for users to get what they need quickly, especially for the ready-made detailed answer, and nobody wants to answer them again and again. IMO, it's better to collect and arrange the things from mail-list/irc then writing articles/tutorials in the wiki. Maybe a newbie tutorial for Guile programing is easy. But for a example, a detailed tutorial and practical experiences in delimited-continuation of Guile is still a blank. When we have questions about the wiki content, the discussion in mail-list will be interesting and meaningful. In the past years, we can get that kind of knowledge from Wingo's blog. But we all know he's busy. Or we can search for information fragment from mail-list archive, which is inefficient way. Maybe it's not easy to get these two things done in short term, there must be a start, right?
