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by ar-nelson 1242 days ago
From my experience working on Schemepunk, Gerbil has a lot of interesting functionality but it's also very immature. Frequently modules will not quite match their documentation, or a simple mistake will cause a segfault. I wouldn't feel comfortable using it in production for something internet-facing.
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Schemepunk is awesome, thanks for making it! I’ve been meaning to attempt porting it to guile when I get some free time one of these days
iirc I wanted to port it to Guile originally but there was one major bug in Guile R7RS support that was stopping me. I think it was something about the way imports were named. I submitted an issue but it languished for at least half a year, I think because the dev in charge of that part of the code was busy with something else and not actively working on Guile. I haven't looked at the issue in a couple years, maybe it's fixed now.

And thanks!

(edit: I looked it up, they merged my fix for the bug in May 2021, maybe supporting Guile would be feasible now? https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40252)