Re: TeXmacs with S7 Scheme

Giovanni Piredda <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.texmacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 30.12.2020 um 00:58 schrieb Massimiliano Gubinelli:
> Dear all,
>   I've spent the last few days in integrating S7 Scheme
>
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html
>
> with TeXmacs to replace Guile. S7 is a very small scheme interpreter and I wanted to see how difficult was to port TeXmacs to it and whether performance is acceptable. The good thing is that porting is not very difficult and now that I understand the process better, I think will be also possible to port TeXmacs to other scheme interpreters if needed. Unfortunately performance seems to be worser than Guile 1.8 so at the moment does not seems a viable option.

I have a suspicion here---that having many different possible 
implementations of Scheme may be dangerous: packages written for one 
implementation may not work with another one, and this might hinder the 
development of user-contributed packages, and I think user contributions 
would help the development and diffusion of TeXmacs.

But perhaps it is sufficient that there is one "official" TeXmacs 
version (with Guile :-) ) and then the presence of alternatives would 
not hinder developments on the official version.

> I'm also maintaining a port to Guile 2/3 which seems to work fine.
>
I am eagerly waiting for it to become the main TeXmacs version.


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