From kumoyuki at gmail.com  Sun Jun 26 13:37:37 2022
From: kumoyuki at gmail.com (David Rush)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:37:37 +0100
Subject: [Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?
Message-ID: <CAA_wS4X+i-noBLeyuZ2OEFoxwixuwYQt_JC4Y2L17gQmePCq6w@mail.gmail.com>

So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it
regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory
calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found
some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms
and I thought I'd check to see if there was a new release up before I said
anything. Then I noticed that there have been no updates in five years.

Now Larceny has never had a very high release cadence, but five years does
seem like rather a long time. And the Github statistics also show
little-to-no activity for most of that same time. So is Larceny dead?
Abandoned?

I do notice that there are several forks, but are any of these a successor
project? Do I need to start porting my personal tool kit?...Just so many
questions...

david
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From owinebar at gmail.com  Sun Jun 26 14:09:36 2022
From: owinebar at gmail.com (Lynn Winebarger)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:09:36 -0400
Subject: [Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?
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Ha, I've been reviewing Emacs's Lisp implementation since they've
incorporated a native code representation and come back to Larceny as my
reference point for compiler design.
It looks like Lars has done more recent work, but still fairly dormant.

https://github.com/lars-t-hansen/larceny

Lynn


On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 1:37 PM David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:

> So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it
> regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory
> calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found
> some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms
> and I thought I'd check to see if there was a new release up before I said
> anything. Then I noticed that there have been no updates in five years.
>
> Now Larceny has never had a very high release cadence, but five years does
> seem like rather a long time. And the Github statistics also show
> little-to-no activity for most of that same time. So is Larceny dead?
> Abandoned?
>
> I do notice that there are several forks, but are any of these a successor
> project? Do I need to start porting my personal tool kit?...Just so many
> questions...
>
> david
> --
> GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt
> _______________________________________________
> Larceny-users mailing list
> Larceny-users at lists.ccs.neu.edu
> https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
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From owinebar at gmail.com  Sun Jun 26 14:19:35 2022
From: owinebar at gmail.com (Lynn Winebarger)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:19:35 -0400
Subject: [Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 2:09 PM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 1:37 PM David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it
>> regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory
>> calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found
>> some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms
>> and I thought I'd check to see if there was a new release up before I said
>> anything. Then I noticed that there have been no updates in five years.
>>
>> Now Larceny has never had a very high release cadence, but five years
>> does seem like rather a long time. And the Github statistics also show
>> little-to-no activity for most of that same time. So is Larceny dead?
>> Abandoned?
>>
>> I do notice that there are several forks, but are any of these a
>> successor project? Do I need to start porting my personal tool kit?...Just
>> so many questions...
>>
>> david
>> --
>> GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt
>> _______________________________________________
>> Larceny-users mailing list
>> Larceny-users at lists.ccs.neu.edu
>> https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
>>
>
Also, Dr Clinger is probably enjoying his retirement.  Pnkfelix seems to be
immersed in Rust these days.  I know there's another person (besides Lars
Hansen) who used to be a part of Clinger's team but whose name is escaping
me at the moment.

Lynn
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From kumoyuki at gmail.com  Sun Jun 26 15:05:22 2022
From: kumoyuki at gmail.com (David Rush)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:05:22 +0100
Subject: [Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?
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I have to admit, I was wondering if the professor had, in some sense, left
the world of active development. I saw that he still has a web page at NEU,
so I was feeling a little confused. I guess this means that 64-bit isn't
going to happen :(

I guess I should fork the repo before something untoward happens to it. I
have a surprisingly large collection of historical Scheme interpreters for
pretty much these exact reasons...

- d

On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 at 19:19, Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 2:09 PM Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 1:37 PM David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So...I've been running Larceny 1.3 for quite a while now, and I use it
>>> regularly, if in admittedly casual circumstances (a lot of music theory
>>> calculation and occasional serious algorithmic prototyping). Today, I found
>>> some outright bugs in the SRFI-1 implementations of the lset-* algorithms
>>> and I thought I'd check to see if there was a new release up before I said
>>> anything. Then I noticed that there have been no updates in five years.
>>>
>>> Now Larceny has never had a very high release cadence, but five years
>>> does seem like rather a long time. And the Github statistics also show
>>> little-to-no activity for most of that same time. So is Larceny dead?
>>> Abandoned?
>>>
>>> I do notice that there are several forks, but are any of these a
>>> successor project? Do I need to start porting my personal tool kit?...Just
>>> so many questions...
>>>
>>> david
>>> --
>>> GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Larceny-users mailing list
>>> Larceny-users at lists.ccs.neu.edu
>>> https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
>>>
>>
> Also, Dr Clinger is probably enjoying his retirement.  Pnkfelix seems to
> be immersed in Rust these days.  I know there's another person (besides
> Lars Hansen) who used to be a part of Clinger's team but whose name is
> escaping me at the moment.
>
> Lynn
>
>

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