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Schism, a self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler (github.com/google)
99 points by pjmlp on Sept 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This seems like a good proof-of-concept. Proper implementation of tail calls was one of my concerns, and it looks like they're relying on an experimental Wasm feature in this approach.


It also uses experimental reference types (1). Tail calls at (2).

The schism creator also provided feedback on the WA github at (3).

1. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5166497248837632

2. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5423405012615168

3. https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/5




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