Tuesday, August 26, 2003

The recent success in running the Io language interpreter as an operating system is interesting because it means that the same steps should enable a Common Lisp based operating system. Taking an embeddable Common Lisp and hooking it up to the L4 Microkernel in the same manner as was done for Io could be a good start. This would give a working system on Intel and PPC based machines. ARM support is coming so there would be the possibility of having a Lisp based handheld. That would be fun to play with. I don't know how useful it would be but who cares :-). 10:14:19 PM

Also available for Chicken Scheme recently is a binding for JAPI. JAPI is a cross platform GUI library. It is written in Java and so works on many platforms but can be called from other languages. In a nutshell it exposes the AWT toolkit to other language runtimes. 10:10:01 PM

Felix has released a binding for TCC for Chicken Scheme. Read about it on the mailing list. TCC is a C compiler built as a library. You can compile C code 'in memory' and dynamically link it to the running program. 10:07:49 PM