Scheme

Over the past few weeks I've done a lot of work in Guile. Highlights:

• SRFI-18: Rewrote the fat mutex system and added timeouts for a number of the blocking thread calls in C -- this provided the necessary support for the full Scheme implementation of SRFI-18 I wrote. Also did a test suite. An exhausting experience!
• SRFI-88: I came up with a small patch that lets Guile's reader understand the colon-postfix format for self-quoting keywords.
• Snowflake: A small, buggy Guile module for converting and loading snowballs "natively" -- that is, as if they were Guile modules.

These projects have given me a newfound appreciation for how robust Guile's codebase actually is. But I'd like to get back to my other projects now, specifically libRUIN, which I was on the verge of releasing a few months ago when I made one of my periodic decisions that SCSS was too slow to server as its CSS system... which led me to want to seriously profile it... which meant I wanted to use MzScheme's profiling tools instead of statprof... which meant I had to port it to PLT... which got me interested in all of these cross-interpreter compatibility issues in the first place. It's funny how attention works.