Re: [Texmacs-dev] Bigloo?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> I just took a look at the website for Bigloo and this might be
> quite an interesting choice.
>
> 1) The compiled code is fast.
> 2) The system is well-documented.
> 3) It seems to support a run-time system (some interpreter is
>    started when compiling the program and typing bigloo;
>    I guess (hope) that it is efficient and well-integrated
>    with the rest; to check).
> 4) It seems compatible with many other languages,
>    so it should be easy to use it as an extension language.
>    Moreover, it seems to implement some kind of Java which might be
>    interesting if we want to push the browser-side of TeXmacs further.
> 5) Most SFRIs are there.
> Etc.
>
> The only drawback which I found is that the use of continuations
> is discouraged. But we do not use them now anyway...

I discovered some other disadvantages:

1) It seems that the implementation relies on Boehme's GC,
   which we now know to behave badly in combination with TeXmacs
   (well, some further studies are going on, we'll see...).

2) It seems that modules cannot export/import macro definitions.
   We definitely want to customize the Scheme language to our needs.
   We also need a macro for 'texmacs-module' itself.

3) It seems that SFRI is not that well supported.