It's been over 3 months since kicking off the Pre-Scheme Restoration project, so it's well and truly time for a progress update! I'm pleased to report that the bulk of the port to R7RS has been completed, with approximately 75% of the codebase successfully loading in 3 different R7RS-compatible Scheme implementations (Chibi, Sagittarius, and Guile) and 100% of the codebase running via a new R7RS…
I'm thrilled to announce that the Pre-Scheme Restoration project is now underway, thanks to a generous grant from the NLnet foundation under the NGI Zero Core program. This project is primarily an exercise in software archaeology, bringing an obscure yet important compiler to a wider audience, and using it as the basis for a modern, statically-typed, low-level functional programming language. In…