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Re: Emacs and Guile


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Emacs and Guile
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:26:11 +0200 (CEST)

> FWIW, my (admittedly short) experience with Guile is that it is not
> reliable or stable on anything but GNU/Linux, and even there it has
> much to catch up.  It has a lot to gain in terms of portability
> before it can be considered seriously as an alternative to ELisp, or
> even its sibling on equal rights.  [...]

We use it quite successfully in LilyPond which runs on Macs, Windows
boxes, and various UNIX flavours.  Right now, we have about 1.3MByte
of Scheme code.  This is Guile 1.8.x, but we are already in the
process of migrating to 2.x.

> As an example, look at the series of reports from my (eventually
> successful) attempt to build Guile natively on MS-Windows.

OK, this is a different issue.  LilyPond binaries for Mac and Windows
are cross-compiled on a GNU/Linux box.

So people working on a forthcoming Scheme support in Emacs might have
a look at LilyPond.


    Werner



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