LWN: Comments on "GNU Guile 2.2.0 released"

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atai — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:05:11 +0000

HelloWorld?

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jem — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:57:16 +0000

Aisleriot! :)

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davexunit — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:28:58 +0000

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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oldtomas — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:09:36 +0000

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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dakas — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:11:41 +0000

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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davexunit — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:48:35 +0000

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

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HelloWorld — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:37:06 +0000

Interesting applications written in Guile? Such as?

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oldtomas — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 10:59:46 +0000

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!