Re:StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
by davexunit on Monday August 11, 2014 @07:46AM
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Yes, I was mistaken about the SLIME integration. I only used a primitive REPL. The rest of your response is total garbage. Guile is a really good Scheme implementation, imo.
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Re:StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
by latiera on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:20PM
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Depends what you mean by really good Scheme implementation.
Guile is a GNU project, which means that if you care about (say) Windows (gasp), you're shit out of luck.
The same used to be true about OSX 2-3 years ago, I haven't bothered to check again since then.
Coupled with the fact, that maybe 2-3? people are actively working on Guile (guess what platform they're focusing on), and that pretty much nobody is using Guile besides little toy projects, things are not looking good.
No, a really good Scheme implementation would be, Racket or Chicken. Hell, even Gambit is objectively better and more mature than Guile. I guess you're too blind to see that.
Re:StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
by dllthomas on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:28PM
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"Guile is a GNU project, which means that if you care about (say) Windows (gasp), you're shit out of luck."
Are you using StumpWM on windows?
Re:StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
by latiera on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:40PM
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I am addressing Guile being in my view one of the worst Scheme implementations out there, StumpWM has nothing to do with this. Being tied to, effectively, a single platform does.
Re:StumpWM: A complete window manager in Lisp
by dllthomas on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:49PM
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Sure. I just think it's a little weird to demand portability from something whose raison d'être is as an extension language for its host OS, in a context where we were originally discussing an extension language for something that is likewise non-portable.