We sneakily released Arei Guile Scheme IDE 0.9.5 a couple weeks ago. Mostly because there is not much user-visible new functionality, we just keep polishing sharp edges before 1.0 release.
To keep you updated: Yesterday I implemented extensions resolution mechanism, Nikita is cleaning up session handling on Emacs side and a couple more things left to do.
While we are getting ready for 1.0, @lil started to work on Hoot support!
Now comes the hardest part of the #lispgamejam: making sure other people can actually play your creation... No wonder browser-based games are so popular, next time I'll use #guile#hoot I think.
Just submitted my game Lambda Dungeon to the Spring Lisp Game Jam!
Unfortunately you still can't win the game, I was working on entity battle right up to the last minute of the deadline but just didn't get it finished. It's still fun to watch the game play out, though!
Had a ton of fun writing this game in Scheme with Guile Hoot. Extra special thanks to everyone who came to the streams this week!
Streaming Day 9 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!
Today we'll finish up as much of the game as we can so that we can submit it by tomorrow's deadline! Will we have a working game or a total disaster? Come find out!
Streaming Day 7 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!
Today we'll try to implement the logic script for the Hero so that he can try to capture all the treasure on the map, and more behaviors for the monsters to use to stop him!
Streaming Day 4 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!
Today I'll start implementing a minimal, Scheme-like scripting language for the monsters in the game. We'll finally start to see it become somewhat playable!
Streaming Day 3 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!
Today I'll start building the interactive script editor that will enable you to edit the logic scripts for the game's monsters. This will be my first attempt at writing DOM-manipulating UI code in Hoot so it should be fun!
Streaming Day 2 of my Spring Lisp Game Jam project right now!
We'll continue building out the game world by adding a few game objects and possibly wiring up their basic logic. If we have time, we might start working on the interactive editor!
The #game jam co-organized by Dave Thompson, CTO at @spritelyinst, starts today and are an excellent opportunity to test-drive the #Spritely#Hoot project's #Guile to #WebAssembly facilities.
Get inspired by last year's jam, and join the 10-day event..
@rml did you see the #spritelyInsitute#scheme#hoot#wasm shindig? Tbh when I think of a scheme hacker with a lot of web creation experience who isn't @Sandra or @chris (or Christine herself) I think of you. @cwebber
i once heard that back in the day, JS was originally gonna be a scheme, but some shit went down and it was replaced by a dumpster-fire of a language. so its like going home kinda.
"The thing is that maximal tree-shaking for languages with a thicker run-time has not been a huge priority. Consider Go: according to the #golang wiki, the most trivial program compiled to #WebAssembly from Go is 2 megabytes, and adding imports can make this go to 10 megabytes or more. Or look at Pyodide, the Python WebAssembly port: the REPL example downloads about 20 megabytes of data. These are fine sizes for technology demos or, in the limit, very rich applications, but they aren't winners for web development.
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I work on the #Hoot#Scheme compiler, which targets #Wasm with GC. We manage to get down to 70 kB or so right now, in the minimal "main" compilation unit, and are aiming for lower; auxiliary compilation units that import run-time facilities (the current exception handler and so on) from the main module can be sub-kilobyte. Getting here has been tricky though, and I think it would be even trickier for #Python."