Containers

On learning the Scheme language

The good Will Byrd (github), that I met in person at ICFP 2017, has many advices and the video Resources for Learning Scheme is a good starting point.

Cisco’s Chez Scheme

Cisco open sourced its repo Chez Scheme, which contains an implementation of a (superset) of The Revised⁶ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme.

We provide a new Rust crate igraph-rs, with the relative documentation, that supply bindings over the C library igraph.

As companion artifact, we provide the corresponding Docker container, that can be pulled with:

docker pull ghcr.io/massimo-nocentini/igraph-rs:master

Lua 5.5.0 is out! According to the official announcement, the following main changes are introduced:

• declarations for global variables
• named vararg tables
• for-loop variables are read only
• floats are printed in decimal with enough digits to be read back correctly.
• more levels for constructors
• table.create
• utf8.offset returns also final position of character
• external strings (that use memory not managed by Lua)
• new functions luaL_openselectedlibs and luaL_makeseed
• major garbage collections done incrementally
• more compact arrays (large arrays use about 60% less memory)
• lua.c loads ‘readline’ dynamically
• static (fixed) binaries (when loading a binary chunk in memory, Lua can reuse its original memory in some of the internal structures)
• dump and undump reuse all strings
• auxiliary buffer reuses buffer when it creates final string

Containers

As companion artifact, we provide the corresponding Docker container, that can be pulled with: