"Knit, Chisel, Hack: Building Programs in Guile Scheme" by Andy Wingo

This talk makes the case that Guile is a delightful medium for making crafty programs, from the most ephemeral scripts to long-lived systems that you can rely on for years. Guile takes the elegant Scheme programming language, integrates it with the POSIX environments that you know and loathe and love, and wraps it all up in a responsive, hackable environment that nurtures programs from the small up to the large. Guile hacker will give you a gentle introduction to the language as they lead you through the process of building cool stuff in Scheme. With all this going for it, maybe you will choose to make your next program in Guile!

[@MutoShack]

IMO Guile is a beautiful language! And Andy Wingo does an excellent job at describing it!

[@bitwize]

Guile goes with everything.

[@user-cq7db9ij1o]

But Guile generates fianlly C files, right?

[@remibirot-delrue1929]

@@user-cq7db9ij1o Nope, it doesn’t compile to C. It compiles to some bytecode that’s interpreted by a small virtual machine. However, there’s a JIT that compiles hot-spots to machine code (like the JVM does), but it is not intended for compiling native excutables (as I understand it).

[@ArneBab]

Now I hear the Guile theme again in my head - thank you!

[@danielsmith5626]

30:41 the laugh of trying to attain web scale