/me is listeniong to “Angel” by Massive Attack

R is not properly tail-recursive. True at present. May be unavoidable since the language provides access to the stack via things like sys.parent, but as it is rare to look at anything other than the immediate calling environment and call (outside of a debugging context) it may be possible to change that. — R and Scheme

The choice of macro system is a very contended issue. The result of this particular controversy was that R7RS just kept syntax-rules from R5RS. In R6RS there is both syntax-rules and the more powerful syntax-case, in which syntax-rules can be written in just a few lines. — R7RS versus R6RS

walking without stopping, except to look at the river and the surrounding countryside

I realize that my long-abandoned Now page dates back from August 2021…

Live coding tricks for CHICKEN Scheme. #scheme

/me is listening to “Group Four” by Massive Attack

Rust is coming to the R’s world: air, arf, ark, and jarl to name a few. #rstats

Veil: A Neovim GUI built for efficiency, not for cool. Native macOS, Metal rendering, instant startup. #vim

Just a few days ago I upgraded to the main branch of nvim-treesitter (because reasons), and it is now archived. See also nvim-treesitter Was Archived. Here’s What You Actually Need to Do.#vim