Emacs package Geiser improves Scheme development

http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

35 9 13 years ago

Geiser is a great tool for working with Scheme, and the author jao (José A Ortega Ruiz) is a genuinely good guy. His old blog at

http://programming-musings.org

is full of Scheme goodness, and he has another site devoted to Emacs hacks at

http://emacs.wordpress.com

christianbryant• 13 years ago

Thanks for adding the WordPress link. I'd actually been there before and didn't make the connection between the sites. Geiser was something I recently stumbled upon and fell in love with it instantly :)

momo-reina3• 13 years ago

Can anyone elucidate on the main differences between Slime and Geiser? The Geiser main page says that Slime is/was part of the inspiration but others are also mentioned.

callmecosmas• 13 years ago

I think the main difference is that SLIME is for Common Lisp and Geiser is for Guile/Racket. More than that, I don't know enough about SLIME to say.

momo-reina3• 13 years ago

Ah that might be it, I'm also quite ignorant of Scheme and thought that most Schemes would be able to run without problems; seems like only Scheme48, MITScheme and Kawa are supported.

msl• 13 years ago

SLIME can actually be made to work with many different lisps, including several Scheme implementations. I use it (actually, SLIMV, which is the same thing, only for VIM) with Chicken Scheme.

signa11• 13 years ago

from the main-page:

Because i prefer growing and healing to poking at corpses, the continuously running Scheme interpreter takes the center of the stage in Geiser. A bundle of Elisp shims orchestrates the dialog between the Scheme interpreter, Emacs and, ultimately, the schemer, giving her access to live metadata.

momo-reina3• 13 years ago

How is this any different to SLIME? Most of the time you connect to a running LISP system though SLIME/SWANK, you don't frequently shut down the system when you do debugging/development. Introspection is basically built-in most implementations of (Common) LISP.

Emacs package Geiser improves Scheme development

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