We are now 2 weeks away from the next Lisp Game Jam! If you've ever typed a parenthesis (open, close, or both) and thought "ooh, that felt good!" then join up here: https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2023 #lisp #scheme #gamedev #gamejam

I was born in the 90s so I have no idea what the heck a zeldo is sorry zoomers

I am working on relicensing Chickadee, my game library, from GPLv3 to Apache 2.0. I plan to make a new release under this license before the lisp game jam starts.

@ekaitz_zarraga it's very cool! tcl has gems and it would be good to not lose them to time.

@ekaitz_zarraga yeah though mine is a small amount of Scheme code using ports and stuff so it's a better integration.

@ekaitz_zarraga oh neat! didn't know about this but I was inspired by headless browser drivers.

@ekaitz_zarraga ?

Today I wrote the beginnings of a Guile REPL test driver so you can simulate REPL sessions and perform integration tests on the output. This is useful for running through scenarios where meta-commands are used, which I've been writing a lot of lately.

@ekaitz_zarraga Andy is using V8 for the Guile WASM project as it has all the experimental features we need. Other JS engines should catch up in time.

I built v8 with guix. it was very difficult.

the v8 build system is kinda fucked

Andrew Whatson's excellent FOSDEM talk about Pre-Scheme is finally available to watch! If you like learning about Lisp history then this is a good one to check out! https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/prescheme/

CMake people stop making everything a git submodule challenge. what a damn mess.

ah this software looks easy to package, it's readme only mentions needing a few libraries.

*ten seconds later*

ohhhh there's like 4 bundled libraries included as git submodules

@cwebber @technomancy @jfred @ekaitz_zarraga @civodul I think I prefer the "import what you need" approach over "prefix all imports".

@ekaitz_zarraga @cwebber @civodul I think it's because all POSIX procedures have traditionally gone into the default environment.

ruh roh guile 3.0.9 adds "spawn" to the default environment but guile-goblins uses "spawn" to make actors and that word was chosen because it *wasn't* in the default environment... until this week! wish I had been thinking about this before when I saw the POSIX spawn stuff happening.

Big congrats to @shinmera for releasing Kandria today! Buy it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261430/Kandria/

@phoe ha, pretty neat to see a GOOPS thing make its way to CLOS land. usually it's the other way around!

@ekaitz_zarraga if I can understand even one basic implementation it will help me translate the concepts into my own code.