On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:35:55 -0500
Marc Feeley <xxxxxx@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Jakub T. Jankiewicz <xxxxxx@onet.pl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> If we can get people collaborating on try.scheme.org, we could add one
> >> code editor there that works with all the supported JavaScript Schemes.
> >> In the best case, it could save everyone some time finding and fixing
> >> bugs with the JS libraries <-> Scheme integration and end up with a
> >> result that could be re-used on implementations' own websites as well.
> >>
> >
> > What about if you create repo try.scheme.org in scheme org, and add me
> > to the org maybe you can add Marc as well and we will be able to work on
> > the page if Marc agree.
> >
> > Marc can start the project with base emscripten of Gambit, but it need
> > have the source code. The gambit itself don't need to be included, but it
> > need to have all makefiles and scripts that build this so it can be build
> > by anyone. And the code should be Open Source (Free Open license).
>
> I’ve added some files to the try.scheme.org github repo to show how a
> barebones Scheme interpreter webapp can be created using Gambit.  It is a
> makefile and a 45 line Scheme source file.
>
> The interpreter is only “barebones” in its UI.  It currently runs a REPL
> using the JavaScript “prompt” function that allows showing the last few
> lines of output and allowing the next line of input to be entered.  Very
> minimal but often good enough to start developing webapps.
>
> The I/O for the interpreter’s console can be redirected elsewhere by
> redefining the JavaScript functions g_console_input_add and
> g_console_output_add.  I’m confident an interface to  JQueryTerminal would
> be easy to achieve with minimal work.  For Gambit-in-the-browser I had used
> Terminus (https://github.com/breuleux/terminus) another JavaScript terminal
> emulator,with lots of interesting features by the way.  I expect
> JQueryTerminal to be similarly easy to interface to.
>
> File I/O would have to be improved to support editing files in the browser.
>  Currently open-input-file will use AJAX to read files from the web server,
> which is useful for accessing libraries and other resources.

Lets continue in GitHub issues.

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