[Guile-commits] branch master updated: Mention WebAssembly in status section

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commit ba05f1dd6d87abf3d1e9f8b11ca5b7b7632290bc
Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 6 21:51:02 2020 +0100

    Mention WebAssembly in status section
    
    * doc/ref/history.texi (Status): Add mention of WebAssembly.
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diff --git a/doc/ref/history.texi b/doc/ref/history.texi
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@@ -281,9 +281,17 @@ language with a syntax that is closer to C, or to Python. 
Another
 interesting idea to consider is compiling e.g.@: Python to Guile. It's
 not that far-fetched of an idea: see for example IronPython or JRuby.
 
-Finally, there's Emacs itself.  Guile's Emacs Lisp support has reached
-an excellent level of correctness, robustness, and speed.  However there
-is still work to do to finish its integration into Emacs itself.  This
-will give lots of exciting things to Emacs: native threads, a real
-object system, more sophisticated types, cleaner syntax, and access to
-all of the Guile extensions.
+Also, there's Emacs itself.  Guile's Emacs Lisp support has reached an
+excellent level of correctness, robustness, and speed.  However there is
+still work to do to finish its integration into Emacs itself.  This will
+give lots of exciting things to Emacs: native threads, a real object
+system, more sophisticated types, cleaner syntax, and access to all of
+the Guile extensions.
+
+Finally, so much of the world's computation is performed in web browsers
+that it makes sense to ask ourselves what the Guile-on-the-web-client
+story is.  With the advent of WebAssembly, there may finally be a
+reasonable compilation target that's present on almost all user-exposed
+devices.  Especially with the upcoming proposals to allow for tail
+calls, delimited continuations, and GC-managed objects, Scheme might
+once again have a place in the web browser.  Get to it!