whateverhappenedto ragnard/shen-truffle

[Raoul Duke]

https://github.com/ragnard/shen-truffle

[Raoul Duke]

& how many ports are unmaintained?

https://github.com/Shen-Language/shen-cl

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 21:01 Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://github.com/ragnard/shen-truffle

[dr.mt...@gmail.com]

I would say that the only really up to date ports are SBCL and Scheme

though Go was updated to S standard some years ago.  Many of the ports

are stuck in pre-S configuration.   It was sort of inevitable, that in an OS project

manned by volunteers, that a language like Shen, spread uniquely across 

many platforms, would end up with obsolescent unmaintained ports.  As

I said in my essay (Forks and Abandonware section), this is a problem with

OS projects.

BUT there is a big but - it might not matter.   You see Yggdrasil is designed

to operate with all platforms but only needs one to run.   Confusing?  Read

what I have to say on this page. 

Today I'm picking up coding Yggdrasil in a stripped down type secure version.

This is the first code I've written in a time.

So if  Yggdrasil works as planned, the work doen on these ports will not be wasted. 

Mark

[Raoul Duke]

Yggdrasil sounds very interesting, thank you for continuing to push Shen ever forward. 

[dr.mt...@gmail.com]

If Yggdrasil works as I planned the most obsolescent port will become alive.

As long as the porter has coded in Shen the backend translating KL to Blub

then we can leverage his port.  Since KL has remained largely invariant through

the evolution of Shen since 2013, we should be good to go.

How easy it would be for a non-Blub programmer to do this I don't know.

M.