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On hoot, on boot
wingolog: article: on hoot, on boot
Upon reflection, I have been too conscious of its limitations to give it verbal tribute, preferring to spend each marginal hour fixing bugs and filling in features rather than publicising progress. JS is cute of course, but Guile is a bit different in some interesting ways, the most important of which is control: delimited continuations, multiple values, tail calls, dynamic binding, threads, and all that. From this root we grew a small run-time library, written in raw WebAssembly, used for slow-paths for the various primitive operations that are part of Guile’s compiler back-end.
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