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Posted Mar 20, 2017 10:59 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
Parent article: GNU Guile 2.2.0 released

Guile's development (from a pretty straightforward VM language to one with lots of state-of-the-art optimizations) has been impressive. At the same time, quite a few interesting applications are appearing everywhere.

Thanks, folks!

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Posted Mar 20, 2017 17:37 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (6 responses)

Interesting applications written in Guile? Such as?

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Posted Mar 20, 2017 18:48 UTC (Mon) by davexunit (guest, #100293) [Link] (2 responses)

GNU Guix is the most notable. https://gnu.org/s/guix

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Posted Mar 20, 2017 21:11 UTC (Mon) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link] (1 responses)

Uh, that's a system manager and installer (similar to apt/dpkg). You'd not likely notice a performance difference even with Guile 1.8.

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Posted Mar 21, 2017 13:28 UTC (Tue) by davexunit (guest, #100293) [Link]

That's not true at all. Guix performs much better on 2.2. A package manager isn't a trivial application.

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Posted Mar 21, 2017 8:09 UTC (Tue) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

Apart from the classics like Lilypond and Gnucash, which use Guile as an extension (and are now suffering from growing pains due to the radical changes in their extension language -- but there is the will to resolve that), here's something "new" and "shiny" for you:

AO: algorithmic 3D CSG: <http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/>
Lepton-EDA <https://github.com/lepton-eda/>

Plus, of course, web servers and things. I particularly like Tekuti, Andy Wingo's "blogging engine".

And, of course, Guix (which is "just" a functional clone of Nix. The basic ideas and some code is stolen from there: kind of the Git of package managers).

This new push in Guile is since a while in the works: last year's FOSDEM was already notable, but this year even more.

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Posted Mar 22, 2017 16:57 UTC (Wed) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link]

Aisleriot! :)

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Posted Jan 25, 2021 6:05 UTC (Mon) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

HelloWorld?