ANanschwa·Dec 18, 2016
This showed up in the guile-user mailing list this week and looks pretty cool. The manual for the project is here: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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5 sourcesFibers: Go-Like Concurrency for Guile Scheme
1 points · Open discussionThis version of Guile makes possible better asynchronous code via https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual (which is the implementation of something similar to Python's async/await)
In GNU Guile 2.1.4 releasedI recommend you try/use GNU Guile. It's a Scheme which has better grounds that other lisp language. Among Scheme language, it stands out with good support for foreign function interface (ffi), support for OOP, a good support of standards (r6rs and various srfi and r7rs support is in the work). There's a real community. Recently support for asynchronous code was added through fibers project [0] which makes the use of non-blocking socket (almost?) transparent otherwise said you can use the same procedures in asynchronous or non asynchronous code. There is opengl bindings and a 2D framework called sly with which you can do live coding. There is simple but efficient libraries for doing web apps. A more advanced option is to use Artanis [1]. And some people are working on better array operations to match numpy for doing matrix operations.
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is not Python tho. There is not as much people or library. Package sharing is different, it's mostly done through guix/sd or copy/pasting (!) modules in your projects (at least that's what I do and it works). Otherwise said, there isn't a solid equivalent to pypi outside guix...
BTW, guix is a an functional package manager where guixsd is distribution built on top of it [2].
Also, it's a GNU project which means your contribution won't be lost in the sea; join a community dedicated to building ((good) free) softwares that can make a difference and where you can make the difference.
HTH!
[0] https://github.com/wingo/fibers
[1] https://github.com/nalaginrut/artanis
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/