that’s actually a really cool trick — the many with-usages (like locks!) are a huge boon to understandable code.

And while it took me 25 lines of code to implement this with with wisp ( https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/wisp/browse/examples/with.w?rev=3447d48e85620c639131c0e1b47308503df5eb81#L12 ) it’s only Python where that’s the default way to do things.

(there is no superfluous with in the previous paragraph ☺)

Being able to add stuff like this to the language cleanly is why I started to move my personal projects from #Python to #Guile #Scheme in 2013, though.

Hey there I wrote an update about Guile Hoot, Spritely's Scheme -> WASM compiler project, and it includes an embedded demo that works on the latest Chrome Dev or Firefox Nightly. The WASM GC future is here. We think Hoot is a pretty unique and cool project in the WASM world and I hope this post explains why in an understandable way.

https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-wireworld-in-browser.html

#scheme #wasm #guile #spritely

Did anyone here read the #paper: "Design of #Lisp based #processors; or #Scheme: the dielectric Lisp; or Finite Memories considered harmful; or #LAMBDA: the ultimate opcode" by Guy L Steele and Gerald J Sussman (1979)
<https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731>

It's starting to interest me *a lot* so I'm reading it again.
If you want to #discuss or know stuff about it I probably don't, come to me!