i have been developing on (gnu/)linux for, um, a long time now, and i just now learned about /usr/bin/env -S https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/env-invocation.html#g_t_002dS_002f_002d_002dsplit_002dstring-usage-in-scripts

thanks to a grant from nlnet / ngi zero core, i get to carve out some work time later this year to hack on the whippet garbage collector! more on this when i find how to schedule it, but i am really looking forward to the hack. https://nlnet.nl/project/Whippet/

should you happen to be in the vicinity of the lovely lacustral lausanne, i have a talk this thursday about compiling to wasm/gc: https://memento.epfl.ch/event/a-new-hope-compiling-managed-languages-to-webassem/

new blog post, in which i redesign my web site for the first time in 20 years https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/12/05/colophonwards

a wee update on @spritelyinst's compiler from scheme to webassembly (https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot) -- we are perhaps 3 weeks away from feature-complete as regards the r7rs-small scheme report, and with a number of extensions (notably delimited continuations that compose with dynamic-wind and parameters).

today while working on an inline asm facility for use in the stdlib, i realized that since we have a wasm toolchain in scheme already, we can just parse little wasm modules. neat :)

all software has a time at which you start to question your life choices. with gnu make, it's always today

whoa -- a webassembly font shaper https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/4131

new bloggies: parallel futures in mobile application development https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/06/15/parallel-futures-in-mobile-application-development
in which your protagonist rounds up his survey series by looking forward to future developments: rust, the new web platform, and webassembly

imagine designing a new scripting language in 2023 -- like, literally, a language designed to script other systems. then imagine claiming "no first class functions" as a feature 🤔 https://rhai.rs/book/about/non-design.html

new bloggies: approaching cps soup ~~ https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/05/20/approaching-cps-soup
a text based on a talk given to @spritelyinst collaborators, on guile's unique compiler intermediate representation, straddling the line between ssa and cps, with a functional flavor

what a delightful domain name ❤️❤️ https://continuation.passing.style/static/talks/gensym_icse23.pdf