Re: Guile Hoot v0.2.0 released!

[Daniel Skinner]

whoops nvm, found the answer in r7rs spec and had apparently learned older
way

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023, 4:05 PM Daniel Skinner <daniel@dasa.cc> wrote:

> Given some inexact that I would eventually want to truncate and use as the
> index arg of vector-ref, do I have any options for this in this release of
> hoot?
>
> Notably I didn't see a definition for inexact->exact and I dont really
> know my way around scheme too well to know how to address otherwise.
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:09 PM Thompson, David <dthompson2@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
>>
>>