GNU Guile 2.9.9 Released [beta]
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.9.9. This is the ninfth and probably final pre-release of what will eventually become the 3.0 release series. Compared to the current stable series (2.2.x), the future Guile 3.0 adds support for just-in-time native code generation, speeding up all Guile programs. See the NEWS extract at the end of the mail for full details. Compared to the previous prerelease (2.9.7), Guile 2.9.8 fixes a number of bugs. The current plan is to make a 3.0.0 final release on 17 January 2020. If there's nothing wrong with this prerelease, 3.0.0 will be essentially identical to 2.9.9. With that in mind, please test and make sure the release works on your platform! Please send any build reports (success or failure) to address@hidden, along with platform details. You can file a bug by sending mail to address@hidden. The Guile web page is located at http://gnu.org/software/guile/, and among other things, it contains a copy of the Guile manual and pointers to more resources. Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS, R6RS, and R7RS Scheme standards, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, powerful string processing, and HTTP client and server implementations. Guile can run interactively, as a script interpreter, and as a Scheme compiler to VM bytecode. It is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter/VM. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code >From C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand.
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