21 pointsby guenchi2 hours ago5 comments
  • trescenzi32 minutes ago
    Hoot[1] already exists and does a very good job of running scheme in web assembly. Everything Spritely is working on is pretty cool.

    1: https://spritely.institute/hoot/

    • davexunita minute ago
      Hoot is also not a 2 day old vibecoded project.
    • guenchi27 minutes ago
      thx good to know
  • compacct27an hour ago
    This really gets at the issue with JavaScript in the age of AI: it’s just not a terribly statically verifiable language, and DOM work is incredibly prone to failing silently while the app itself is clearly not working. We’ve had to paper over it with TypeScript and frameworks that impose constraints just to stop several classes of bugs, and even then it doesn’t go terribly well.

    The flip side is that AI is making the underlying code more like a..compilation target? At least in the sense that, yes, as this site mentions, Scheme is ugly to read and would be hell to write the old way, but with the new way..maybe we can try because it would give us what native JavaScript and the latest browser standards never could: reliability

    • rafterydj10 minutes ago
      I don't understand this, if I'm honest. WebAssembly is the compilation target. It's a Scheme compiler for wasm, right? Why is it pretending to be a way to rewrite websites? Wouldn't that be a job for literally any possible language compiled to WebAssembly?

      I read the "Why Scheme?" page and it looked entirely AI generated, inasmuch as the reasoning presented confused me, because it didn't make sense. It references homoiconicity as pretty much the only reason to do this, mentions Lisp once or twice, and then just sort of talks about AI not understanding HTML because it doesn't understand compiling.

      But putting it under the prompt of "must pass compiler" makes an AI exactly as capable at the task of making websites as it is capable at the task of making correct programs in any language - which is to say that it can't be guaranteed. Which in turn puts into the question the whole purpose of this project, and particularly, why Scheme chosen at all? Why not Lisp? Why not C? Or Erlang? Or Clojure?

    • shalom111223 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • koolala13 minutes ago
    Pretty slick it has Three.js built in. I've not sure I've seen that in a language before in the standard library.
  • bramadityaw44 minutes ago
    I tried to edit the Scheme source but it seems to have a bug where every editing action seems to happen a row above of where the cursor is.
    • golem1437 minutes ago
      same. Chrome on MacOs. But the code can actually compile and run, once you adjust for the cursor positions.
      • guenchi28 minutes ago
        please retry :)
    • 37 minutes ago
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    • guenchi28 minutes ago
      please retry :)
  • guenchi2 hours ago
    1 Self hosting in browser with hygienic macros 2 handle HTML and CSS like Scheme (Expand with macro) 3 Use S-expr to send / receive message with server