Racket, formerly known as PLT Scheme, seems to receive a lot of attention from users and developers:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RacketLanguage http://racket-lang.org/ -รก. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:42, Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoe...@texmacs.org> wrote: > Hi Karl, > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: >> I'm wondering if anyone is presently working on patching TeXmacs so that it >> will build and run with Guile 2.0. In the Guile-2.0 NEWS file, I see that >> "The GH interface (deprecated in version 1.6, 2001) was removed." TeXmacs >> fails to build because it's looking for <guile/gh.h> which is no longer >> present. > > Yes, I am aware of the problem, but I have not really been working on it yet. > Guile induces a *lot* of problems at the moment and it is not even clear that > we really want to go all the way to Guile 2.*. On the one hand, it is true > that > Guile 2.0 includes a much faster byte code interpreter. On the other hand > though, > Guile is growing more and more maximalistic: the number of dependencies is > going out of hand, making portability a major concern. Also, Guile 2.0 > now relies on Boehm GC for garbage collection; having used this garbage > collector in another project, I am very suspicious and fear that this move > may introduce subtle bugs and make code harder to debug. I have discussed > these issues on the GNU developers list and the Guile developers are willing > to make things a little bit better. Yet, it is not clear at all that this > will be enough. Massimiliano has started to look for possible replacements > of Guile. Another solution would be to stick to an old version, include > the sources with TeXmacs and take care of maintainance issues ourselves. > > Best wishes, --Joris > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
