Hacker News with Generative AI: Scheme

Scheming a mise-en-abîme in BQN (panadestein.github.io)
We will build an interpreter for a subset of the Scheme programming language, following an essay by Peter Norvig.

Programming Languages, Scheme, BQN

51 points by todsacerdoti 32 days ago | 1 comments

Loko Scheme, an optimizing, bare-metal Scheme compiler (scheme.fail)
Welcome to the home of Loko Scheme, an optimizing Scheme compiler!

Programming, Scheme, Compilers

20 points by sph 46 days ago | 2 comments

Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme (mnieper.github.io)
This document is an introduction to writing powerful macros in Scheme.

Programming, Scheme, Macros, Functional Programming

91 points by textread 54 days ago | 5 comments

Three Implementation Models for Scheme (1987) [pdf] (cs.indiana.edu)

Programming Languages, Scheme, Papers, Computer Science, History

71 points by tosh 108 days ago | 4 comments

Why I'm writing a Scheme implementation in 2025: Async Rust (maplant.com)
This blog post is an introduction to scheme-rs.

Programming Languages, Rust, Scheme, Async Programming

198 points by maplant 130 days ago | 86 comments

Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go (git.sr.ht)
txtar enables you to work with a simple text archive format compatible with https://golang.org/x/tools/txtar. It concatenates files together and allows for a top-level comment.

Programming, Go, Software, Scheme

74 points by hellcow 139 days ago | 8 comments

Guile Hoot 0.6.0 Released (spritely.institute)
We are excited to announce the release of Hoot 0.6.0! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser!

Programming, WebAssembly, New Releases, Scheme

7 points by todsacerdoti 156 days ago | 0 comments

Embedding Scheme in Rust (raviqqe.com)
Rust, as a compiled language, makes it challenging to modify the behavior of programs dynamically. In this article, we embed a small Scheme interpreter called Stak Scheme in Rust to dynamically change the behavior of a program without stopping the process.

Rust, Programming Languages, Scheme, Dynamic Programming

93 points by raviqqe42 170 days ago | 10 comments

Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile (2022) (dthompson.us)
Scheme is often thought of as a functional programming language, but really it is a multi-paradigm language, including object-oriented programming.

Programming Languages, Scheme, Object-Oriented Programming

59 points by BoingBoomTschak 181 days ago | 4 comments

Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime (more-magic.net)
Hi! This post is about a new project of mine, called "CRUNCH", a compiler for a statically typed subset of the programming language Scheme, specifically, the R7RS (small) standard.

Programming Languages, Scheme, Compilers

190 points by sjamaan 192 days ago | 71 comments

The GNU Shepherd (gnu.org)
The Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile Scheme that looks after the herd of daemons running on the system.

Operating Systems, GNU, Service Management, Programming Languages, Scheme

6 points by mgd 197 days ago | 0 comments

The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme (gnu.org)
Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era.

Programming, New Releases, Scheme

19 points by civodul 200 days ago | 3 comments

What to Expect from Chicken 6 (more-magic.net)
This article is about the changes in the next major version of CHICKEN Scheme.

Programming Languages, Scheme, Software, New Releases, Version Updates

3 points by davexunit 219 days ago | 0 comments

What to Expect from Chicken 6 (more-magic.net)
This article is about the changes in the next major version of CHICKEN Scheme.

Programming Languages, Scheme, Software, New Releases

6 points by todsacerdoti 220 days ago | 1 comments

Scheme R7RS Large Foundations: The Macrological Fascicle (r7rs.org)
This is the first released part of the anticipated first volume of the Revised7 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme (large language). It follows the small language report which was completed by Working Group 1 in 2013. This fascicle extends the macro system defined in that report.

Programming Languages, Scheme, R7RS, Macro Systems

11 points by todsacerdoti 268 days ago | 0 comments

Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998) (xach.com)
From a language design point of view, why do we have the pair notion in Scheme?

Programming Languages, Lisp, Scheme

81 points by sph 268 days ago | 111 comments

Byggsteg – PoC simple fast deployable CI/CD system written in Guile Scheme (github.com/jjba23)
Byggsteg is the free as in freedom CI/CD orchestrator written in Guile Scheme.

CI/CD, Programming, Scheme, Open Source

5 points by jjba23 273 days ago | 0 comments

Optimizing Guile Scheme (dthompson.us)
Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly.

Programming Languages, Scheme, Optimization

168 points by avvvv 280 days ago | 80 comments

Ribbit: A portable, compact and extensible R4RS Scheme implementation (github.com/udem-dlteam)