Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration

Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs... by neilv on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:45AM (#36137691)

This is very promising. Years ago, I was thinking that probably Racket, Gambit, or someone's dissertation would evolve into production-grade Wasm target. But looks like Andy Wingo, et al., are really tackling it through Guile.

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Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs... by gmatejka on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:31AM (#36138188)

I built rasm (https://github.com/GrantMatejka/rasm) to compile racket to wasm. Definitely not production grade, but fun nonetheless

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Re:Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recurs... by neilv on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:59AM (#36138509)

Projects like these are great, and absolutely in traditions of Scheme, PL research, hobbies/learning, and sometimes startups.

Not everything has to be overtly adopted to be worth doing.

Historically, when someone makes some advancement that doesn't lead to adoption, it seems often because:

* there's no follow-through to production-grade (maybe the norm with PL dissertations, if the next job isn't industry and directly involving that same platform);

* the market applicability is too niche/nonexistent, at least at the time (e.g., someday people will realize better DSLs were figured out a long time ago); or

* didn't promote it well enough.

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