I want to send email I have a server, I want it to send email. They don’t arrive. I just want to send email. I’m not alone I’m not the first person to do this, of course. In 2010, Coding Horror published a very practical tutorial describing…
The goal of this whole project has always been to make a faster version of GNU Mes. We never lost that guiding star but we also wanted to improve the code in other ways while working on it: use a proper fully-hygienic macro expander, simpli…
Bootstrapping a Scheme interpreter from the ground up to a hygienic macro expander and our struggles in the process. Catching air in the middle of the deep-dive on Scheme bytecode interpreters. First thoughts about implementing a GNU Mes’ c…
In the last blogpost I proposed a solution for all our problems, the bootstrapping, the stacked evaluators, proper hygiene… A wish come true! But one thing is to wish and another is to put things in practice. Let’s discuss what we did, how
Since the last post, where I described the module system and I introduced a few loose ends and a memory error, I continued with the philosophy I also introduced before: “just pretend it works”. I continued to work on top of what I had, cons…
First thoughts about implmenting a GNU Mes’ core as a bytecode interpreter. How does the GNU Mes module system work and why it is crucial for all the work. Just a few updates in GNU Mes before we deep dive in the next big thing. How does th…
How does the GNU Mes module system work and why it is crucial for all the work. Just a few updates in GNU Mes before we deep dive in the next big thing. How does the GNU Mes macro expansion work and why is that important to understand. How
In the previous post I promised that I was going to talk about the module system. It’s time for that. I didn’t pay any attention to the module system when I prepared the project. I thought that it was just going to work because it was all S…
In our previous blogpost in the series we described how GNU Mes’ scheme interpreter handles evaluation and how fast it was. There were some details that weren’t really obvious, though: why does it really do all that magic to emulate functio…
Guix London1 gave me the chance to talk about this whole bootstrapping process and I delivered. In the talk I explain what RISC-V is, how is the Linux support right now, and which changes we added to (gnu packages commencement) in Guix. Lat…
During the latest posts I described that we managed to build GCC using our bootstrapping chain, and also that we built a modern GCC using our bootstrapped one, but now, some connection work has been done. It’s time to report on that. In my
In previous episodes we talked about getting sidetracked and we mentioned we needed to build Musl because we had limitations in our standard library. We didn’t explain them in detail and I think it’s the moment to do so, as many of the chan…