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<ZombieChicken>Does Guile support UTF-8? Seems like there is some variation between scheme revisions and I'd like to know

<ZombieChicken>and I'm not finding anything specific on it when searching

<spk121>ZombieChicken: guile does support UTF-8. It can read and write files in UTF-8, and its characters are unicode codepoints

<ZombieChicken>thanks. I finally found references to that. Apparently my search-fu isn't strong enough

<spk121>Guile 1.8 and before were only 8-bit characters, and early guile 2.0 still had many unicode bugs

<ZombieChicken>well, I'm on 2.2.6. I'll assume things should Just Work then

<ZombieChicken>spk121: Is guile R5 or 6RS?

<spk121>guile 2.2 has all of R5 and a fair chunk of R6

<ZombieChicken>k, ty

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<gagbo>Hello, what do you use for unit testing usually ? Just a scheme file that errors on assertion failures ? I found ggspec on github, but it's really old and not packaged in guix so I assumed it's not used too much

<nly>hi gagbo, i use this: https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/emacsy.git/tree/test/check.scm

<nly>in my-project/testsuites/foo.scm:

<nly>(use-modules (check))

<nly>(check (foobar? baz) => #t) ;; check if (foobar? baz) = #t

<dftxbs3e>oh guile can run brainfuck

<erkin>Naturally. ;-P

<dftxbs3e>erkin, I've been looking at the ECMAScript code in GNU Guile, it's so small! Is it that simple to implement an ECMAScript interpreter?

<erkin>I don't see why not.

<erkin>There are quite a few minimal ES interpreters out there.

<dftxbs3e>I am curious to replace the Node.js crap with GNU Guile at some point, Quickjs was another hope

<erkin>They're all purely interpreted, mind you. Web browsers almost always JIT compile JS, which is a much harder task.

<dftxbs3e>GNU Guile also JIT compiles ECMAScript, correct?

<dftxbs3e>(indirectly through IL)

<civodul>dftxbs3e: it does, but the JS frontend in Guile is more of a toy currently

<dftxbs3e>Ah okay.

<dftxbs3e>Node.js's value is also its standard library

<civodul>also its compiler (v8)

<dftxbs3e>civodul, for sure, but at least that can be replaced without interfering with existing JavaScript code

<nly>great blog: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2020/

<gagbo>nly: could you just "use-modules check" with the file in the current working directory ?

<nly>not without (add-to-load-path "/the/tests-path")

<gagbo>I see, thanks

<nly>gagbo: try (load "check.scm") in your-project/tests/foo.scm

<gagbo>it takes me a while to get going

<nly>gagbo: sorry to go back and forth:

<nly>(load "check.scm")

<nly>(use-modules (check)) ;; you're set now

<gagbo>nly: yay ! thanks a lot

<nly>:)

<nly>yw

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