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Maybe we can convince Marc Feeley to write a backend for Gambit that targets this.


Hey, I'm writing this from Pr Feeley's lab :)

I understand your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but we certainly have an interest in cross-language interoperability! You can check out our work here:

- https://try.gambitscheme.org is Gambit compiled to JavaScript with the universal backend. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to see the JS<->Scheme Syntactic FFI in action.

- https://codeboot.org is our own Python interpreter running in the browser. It has a Python<->JS FFI. Evaluate \alert("hello!") at the REPL to test it out. You can even import JS libraries using the standard Python syntax by replacing the identifier with a string: import "https://mycdn.com/mylibrary.js".

- https://github.com/gambit/python is a Gambit module that integrates Gambit with CPython, using the same syntactic FFI. You can import PyPI modules from Gambit.

References to conferences/papers describing these features can be found on my GH profile (https://github.com/belmarca). AMA if you wish!


It was more "ha ha only serious" than purely tongue-in-cheek. I'm familiar with Gambit's multi-backend targeting and have experimented with its JS backend. I consider it one of the quickest, and most comprehensive, ways to get "Scheme in the browser".


BTW I'd love to hear your feedback if you have tried the above examples!




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