Comment by kolme

21 hours ago

> Of course, to be completely fair about my toolkit, standard Scheme can sometimes lack the heavyweight, “batteries-included” ecosystem required for massive enterprise production compared to the JVM.

I was thinking the whole time, "this person would _love_ Clojure".

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nathan_compton  20 hours ago

Kawa is a Scheme which runs on the JVM and is pretty great.

https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/index.html

I am one of these people who cannot countenance a Lisp that doesn't have `syntax-case`.

  • arvyy  6 hours ago

    kawa is unfortunately a somewhat shoddy project. Alot of halfbaked features / abstraction ideas (eg trying to support CL for whatever reason), dubious tooling for a java project (autotools), unclean and inconsistent code formatting. It's missing some features that are expected in a real scheme like multishot continuations; someone wrote research about it as a MSc thesis, but due to mentioned shoddiness its integration to upstream stalled and hadn't been merged.

    At some point I thought of forking it to then cut out and polish the core, but then my attention got caught by graal's truffle framework as a plausibly better path for implementing scheme in java

    • nathan_compton  3 hours ago

      Its funny, I can definitely sympathize with wanting multishot continuations, but I can't think of many times where I have wanted them to solve a problem.