[Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?

[Lynn Winebarger]

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
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