syvon

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   by syvon 2y ago

   IIRC (might be wrong here) we had full support for JS, C, Python and Scheme from the start. As it evolved I'm unsure how support was kept throughout the versions but I know a much larger set of languages now support the runtime, at lea
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   by syvon 2y ago

   I can't answer as to why the current version is R4RS specifically. The original version Marc and I wrote was running a subset of R4RS. We tried to minimize the code as much as possible (hitting the 4K mark), so it's very possible
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   by syvon 2y ago

   Hi! One of the original author of Ribbit here, glad to see it is still getting attention. Léonard and Marc took the project much further than I imagined. As a fun fact, the project started as a riff of Justine Tunney's famous https:&#
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   by syvon 4y ago

   A common misconception is that GCC stands for GNU C Compiler, but it stands for GNU Compiler Collection. Perhaps why you did not realize ;)
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   by syvon 5y ago

   This reminds me of https://shakespearelang.com/
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   by syvon 5y ago

   I am unsure if this precise problem needed a better solution, but even if not, this is not how math research works. Finding better solutions to random / useless problems can lead to a better solution to a problem which needs solving. T