[Chicken-users] Cocoa Bridge and Chicken gui repl

[Glen Foy]

Hi,

I've been working with the ObjC egg and Cocoa.  It is exceedingly
cool to be able to use Interface Builder with Scheme!  Thanks for
making this available.

In browsing the archives I came across this old post:

> Subject: chicken gui repl
> From: "felix winkelmann" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 06:48:59 +0200

> Hello!

> Kon suggested a somewhat more user-friendly mac-like addition
> to the OS X binary release, and I thought it would be nice to have
> some sort of GUI repl that could be installed along with the
> binaries (and provided with the source release too, of course).
> So I dug out my mostly unfinished and rather clunky code, which
> I provide here in the hope that someone with more knowledge of
> OS X things might pick it up:

< http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-app.dmg

> It's really pretty bad: evaluation can't be interrupted (suggestion:
> eval code in each document in a different thread and somehow
> do some CFRunLoop funkyness to check for an interrupt key- 
combination),
> there is no online help (opening Safari on chicken.html should do)
> and handling input from stdin is not supported (since the current
> selection is eval'd, so there is no real stdin). Moreover it doesn't
> use the objc egg, which removes the dependency
> on objc and libffi, but it might be prefereable to use the wonderful
> objc bridge.

The link no longer exists.  Has anyone done any further work on this?

Thanks a heap,
Glen