[gambit-list] Gambit at 30

James Baker james at waveformdynamics.com.au
Fri Oct 11 19:18:32 EDT 2019


Wow!  Fantastic stuff Marc, congratulations on the milestone and as always
thanks for Gambit!

Cheers,

James

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 6:03 AM Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> To celebrate the Gambit at 30 event, I have committed to the github repo the
> work that has been done by the students I supervised over the summer and
> that will be presented at Gambit at 30.
>
> Some of the more prominent enhancements include:
>
> - Close to full R7RS conformance
> - Module system which simplifies code sharing and distribution
> - Some builtin modules that will grow with time
> - Improvement of the native code backend (now supports x86, ARM and RISC-V)
> - Gambit on bare metal
> - Geiser support
>
> These will be discussed at Gambit at 30.  For a small taste of the module
> system, try:
>
> % gsi github.com/gambit/hello/demo
> % gsi github.com/gambit/hello at 1.0
> % gsi github.com/gambit/xlib/demo   # assumes you have an X server running
>
> Gambit's version number has not been incremented because I need some
> feedback that it works well “in the wild” and that some trivial mistake
> hasn’t been overlooked.
>
> I’m looking forward to your feedback, and to seeing some of you tomorrow!
>
> Marc
>
>
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