Re: Maintenance and future of Guile

[Maxime Devos]

Hi,

Blake Shaw schreef op ma 20-12-2021 om 03:05 [+0700]:
> personally I've been programming for about 15 years now but my career
> has been entirely in new media (video, graphics, audio), so while
> I've
> worked with plenty of lower-level libraries over the years, I didn't
> start to get an itch for compilers until covid happened. I was also
> doing a PhD in philosophy of mathematics at the time (which I've
> postponed indefinitely to prevent being separated from my partner
> during 
> covid travel craziness) so I definitely think I have the *potential*
> to
> contribute to a project like Guile, its just a matter of finding the
> time to read some compiler books (which usually are neither short nor
> easy!).

I want to note that, while definitely the compiler part is an important
part of Guile, there's plenty of non-compiler and non-language things
in Guile as well, so reading compiler books should be unnecessary to
contribute to Guile.

E.g., things like getopt
(https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32154),
the HTTP API (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43711),
a bug fix in the test suite
(https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43521) (verified to
work, for almost a year!).

Anyway, I would like to help when I get back to hacking, although I'd
have a (non-Guile) backlog to work through first, and there would be
some other projects I'd be working on as well.

Greetings,
Maxime.