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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2020-01-06 21:51:02 +0100
committerAndy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>2020-01-06 21:51:02 +0100
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Mention WebAssembly in status section
* doc/ref/history.texi (Status): Add mention of WebAssembly.
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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!