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Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser

by paroneayea on 12/15/23, 3:26 PM with 48 comments

  • by giancarlostoro on 12/16/23, 2:19 AM

    I love this, I had this idea back in 2020, a lisp that compiles to WASM, and then can compile itself to WASM at run-time in the browser, or any WASM run-time, dogfeed itself. I'm not a compiler guru by any means, so its just one of many things on my bucket list.

  • by wslh on 12/15/23, 8:13 PM

    This is amazing. I am not finding the link to open a Scheme REPL in the browser (without doing my developer job). Am I missing something?

  • by gumby on 12/15/23, 5:22 PM

    I only looked at WASM when the spec was first released but at that time it looked like tail call was not possible. Has that been corrected?

  • by ryukafalz on 12/15/23, 7:27 PM

    This is exciting stuff! It feels like Hoot is moving forward at lightning speed these days. Love seeing all these cool demos.

  • by dannyobrien on 12/15/23, 8:10 PM

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    * Internet Archive's Democracy's Library https://blog.archive.org/2022/10/19/announcing-democracys-li...

    * Distributed Press https://distributed.press/

    * Guardian Project https://guardianproject.info/

    * MuckRack Document Cloud https://muckrack.com/

    * Harvard Library Innovation Lab https://lil.law.harvard.edu/

    * Human Rights Data Analysis Group https://hrdag.org/data-publication/

    Longer list here: https://ffdweb.org/explore/#partners

  • by lamerose on 12/15/23, 4:11 PM

    Preferable to doing the Javascript edition of SICP.