Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN in production

[Daniel Leslie]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> How so?  It's the correct Schemely way of handling strings, to disallow
> embedded NUL bytes.

What I was eluding to is that it seems to me that Chicken is the
Scheme that can generally be expected to make design choices which
favour accommodating inter-operation with C.

> Making debugging easier with CHICKEN is an open project that nobody has
> picked up so far.  The pony page has a "source level debugger" bullet
> point.  It looks pretty innocuous there, but it would be a large project
> that takes a significant amount of work and requires quite a familiarity
> with core (which one could work up while working on the project, of course).

It seems to me the lowest-hanging fruit here would be to finish the
SLDB support in the SLIME egg; which, from a brief poke around earlier
today, looks like it may require some core-level hand-waving.
Definitely something I'll think about.

-Dan