Hello everybody!
I would like to start out by saying a thank you to Marc for making Gambit. It is an awesome piece of software! Keep up the good work!
But I would like to point on the lack of standard libraries for things such OpenGL, cocoa / the windows equivalent etc. (there are a few in the dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)
Starting up using gambit has required a great deal of self guided exploring and trickery. And I can not see any reason why it should not exist any kind of simple examples for beginners to look at. I do know that there are one to be found on the site however I find it a bit too "technical" for some people.
To the question!
I had a little idea to ask you guys if any one you are interested in making a little development project to update the basic libraries needed. Maybe some of you already have such things and I encourage you to upload them to the dumping grounds! Sharing is caring! :) I will start working on doing these things myself but I must admin I neither have enough time and experience to do a good job all by myself.
If you have an interest send me a mail!
Best regards, Tomas Möre
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I've been basically doing that with schemespheres.org but I had to dedicate more time to other stuff. I plan on revisiting it. You are right, these are outdated, but there are many other projects (mainly in github) with more recent versions. Gambit certainly favours "the hacker way". If you enjoy you are at home ;)
Álvaro Castro-Castilla -- a@fourthbit.com I create Software.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Tomas Möre tomas.o.more@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody!
I would like to start out by saying a thank you to Marc for making Gambit. It is an awesome piece of software! Keep up the good work!
But I would like to point on the lack of standard libraries for things such OpenGL, cocoa / the windows equivalent etc. (there are a few in the dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)
Starting up using gambit has required a great deal of self guided exploring and trickery. And I can not see any reason why it should not exist any kind of simple examples for beginners to look at. I do know that there are one to be found on the site however I find it a bit too "technical" for some people.
To the question!
I had a little idea to ask you guys if any one you are interested in making a little development project to update the basic libraries needed. Maybe some of you already have such things and I encourage you to upload them to the dumping grounds! Sharing is caring! :) I will start working on doing these things myself but I must admin I neither have enough time and experience to do a good job all by myself.
If you have an interest send me a mail!
Best regards, Tomas Möre
Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com wrote:
I've been basically doing that with schemespheres.org but I had to dedicate more time to other stuff. I plan on revisiting it. You are right, these are outdated, but there are many other projects (mainly in github) with more recent versions. Gambit certainly favours "the hacker way". If you enjoy you are at home ;)
I'm really impressed with SchemeSpheres. Keep up the good work!
Marc
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.cawrote:
On Dec 10, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Álvaro Castro-Castilla < alvaro.castro.castilla@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been basically doing that with schemespheres.org but I had to
dedicate more time to other stuff. I plan on revisiting it.
You are right, these are outdated, but there are many other projects
(mainly in github) with more recent versions. Gambit certainly favours "the hacker way". If you enjoy you are at home ;)
I'm really impressed with SchemeSpheres. Keep up the good work!
Marc
Thanks a lot Marc :) It certainly encourages me to keep working on it! I've just updated the main page, to better explain what the project is trying to do.
Having a standard module system for Gambit would also give access to the JazzScheme libraries :
- contrib.aes : Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric key block cipher - contrib.fmt : Alex Shinn's fmt combinator-based text formatting library - contrib.irregex : Alex Shinn's irregex regular expressions library - contrib.match : Alex Shinn's hygienic pattern matcher library - contrib.sqlite : SQLite database engine - contrib.statprof : Guillaume Germain's statistical profiler - contrib.termite : Guillaume Germain's distributed computing termite - contrib.zlib : ZLib compression library - jazz : The Jazz object-oriented programming language - jazz.catalog : Code cross-referencing library - jazz.debugger : Remote debugger implementation - jazz.designer : Visual GUI designer - jazz.detprof : Deterministic profiler - jazz.git : Interface to the libgit2 library - jazz.graphic : Cairo graphics interface - jazz.graphic.opengl : OpenGL interface - jazz.ui : Cross-platform UI library - srfi-1 - srfi-13 - srfi-14 - srfi-19 - srfi-26 - srfi-34 - srfi-69
Guillaume Cartier
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Tomas Möre tomas.o.more@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody!
I would like to start out by saying a thank you to Marc for making Gambit. It is an awesome piece of software! Keep up the good work!
But I would like to point on the lack of standard libraries for things such OpenGL, cocoa / the windows equivalent etc. (there are a few in the dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)
Starting up using gambit has required a great deal of self guided exploring and trickery. And I can not see any reason why it should not exist any kind of simple examples for beginners to look at. I do know that there are one to be found on the site however I find it a bit too "technical" for some people.
To the question!
I had a little idea to ask you guys if any one you are interested in making a little development project to update the basic libraries needed. Maybe some of you already have such things and I encourage you to upload them to the dumping grounds! Sharing is caring! :) I will start working on doing these things myself but I must admin I neither have enough time and experience to do a good job all by myself.
If you have an interest send me a mail!
Best regards, Tomas Möre
Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Tomas Möre tomas.o.more@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody!
I would like to start out by saying a thank you to Marc for making Gambit. It is an awesome piece of software! Keep up the good work!
You are welcome.
But I would like to point on the lack of standard libraries for things such OpenGL, cocoa / the windows equivalent etc. (there are a few in the dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)
Starting up using gambit has required a great deal of self guided exploring and trickery. And I can not see any reason why it should not exist any kind of simple examples for beginners to look at. I do know that there are one to be found on the site however I find it a bit too "technical" for some people.
To the question!
I had a little idea to ask you guys if any one you are interested in making a little development project to update the basic libraries needed. Maybe some of you already have such things and I encourage you to upload them to the dumping grounds! Sharing is caring! :) I will start working on doing these things myself but I must admin I neither have enough time and experience to do a good job all by myself.
Many interesting things are being built with Gambit by some exceptional hackers. I am optimistic that a community effort can produce some high quality libraries we can share.
Marc
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Álvaro Castro-Castilla