Re: [Chicken-users] Who wants to lead Chicken projets?

[Peter Busser]

Hi!

> So my question is, who here wants to lead a Chicken project?  Meaning, a 
> project based on your interest.  The goal would be to get other people 
> to join your project, under your leadership.

I'm already leading a Chicken project. It is called Adamantix. The
long-term goal is to redesign and improve the complete operating system
using (Chicken) Scheme. I know there are several other projects with
similar goals. But they try to reimplement from scratch. But I think
incremental improvement is a much better strategy.

Currently the focus is on improving security. What makes security cool in
my opinion is that the problems are difficult to solve. And because you
cannot solve it by just applying mathematics or reasoning about it, because
it involves machines as well as human beings (and more importantly, their
perceptions and expectations). That means it requires creativity and
courage too.

This involves work at not only the application level, but also at the system
library and kernel levels. It would be particularly cool if it would be
possible to develop compiled Linux kernel modules in Scheme (and yes, I am
aware of Schemix).

Kernel programming is tedious and error prone. Scheme could make it a lot
easier and reliable. It would also make Scheme the only language other than
C which can be used to program the Linux kernel. That would make Scheme
unique.

And I am working on infrastructure for distributing Chicken packages for
different Linux distributions.

Groetjes,
Peter.