Scheme Is a Hoot

3 comments

• cpach 34 minutes ago
  Direct link to Hoot: https://spritely.institute/hoot/
• NordStreamYacht 4 hours ago
  I don't understand.

  Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?

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  • Jtsummers 3 hours ago
    > Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?

    Scheme is not a thing you use directly, you have to select an implementation. Hoot is one such implementation (targeting execution on WASM).
  • ryukafalz 4 hours ago
    Presumably to run in the browser? Guile Scheme is great for native programs but you need Hoot to run it in a browser.
  • wallstop 4 hours ago
    I think the second sentence of the article covers that pretty simply? To run it in the browser with wasm?

    > One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot.
• nicechianti 2 hours ago
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