What's the future of Guile + Hoot?

Srayan Jana <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:34:17 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user
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I was talking to people in the Lisp Discord (https://discord.gg/WUSUuA5VAu), and I said the following about Guile and Hoot. However, I don't want to spread misinformation, so please correct me if I'm wrong

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Yeah guile isn’t portable
Having talked to some of the maintainers, seems like the plan is to switch over to hoot/wasm as the backend for guile
Since that’s much more portable and also some of the guile people work on the WASM standard I think
basically
GNU Guile native scripts and GNU Lightning are not going away, they will still be native
but to actually redistribute them as standalone binaries and stuff, wasm is probably going to be the way to go
so like, if you want to package up your Guile script and not rely on a preexisting runtime on your computer, you'll need to use Guile Hoot instead, I hope that makes sense
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I believe that's the intention of the people working on Guile and Hoot, especially since Mr. Wingo has been working on a WASM to C translation backend for Guile Hoot specifically (https://codeberg.org/andywingo/wastrel)