[Larceny-users] Is Larceny abandonware now?

[David Rush]

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
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>>
> 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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