we need donations!

[Mark Tarver]

Again I'm going to ask that people give something in donations so that I can power the project by awarding Open Science prizes to developers.  It is important that we move to the new kernel which opens up new applications.  The period between now and spring can see the project really move quickly.    

There is a prototype program sitting on my computer called Yggdrasil which will interact with the S series and generate stand-alone programs in any language.  That's an absolute first; to be able to write a type secure program in Shen and run it under 15 languages.    Nobody else can do that.

It's taken years to get to this point but there's absolutely nothing between us and our objectives other than the determination to move forward

There's a nice scene in the film Patton where George C. Scott as Patton argues that with

gasoline he can punch through the Siegfried line to Berlin.  We are in this situation right now.   Instead of gasoline we need donations.    The more we get,, the faster we move

If you feel you can only spare a few pounds, that's a help.  If you can afford £5-10 a month till next spring then that will be the crucial time.   So do chip in so we can get to the Siegfried line!

The donations page is here

http://shenlanguage.org/donate.html

Mark

[emum]

Just to clarify Yggdrasil — would this be transcompilation? One thing I would love to be able to do is write for the frontend in Shen SBCL. I know there's ShenScript but that's just the JS implementation of Shen; you would essentially be writing JS in JS, correct?. If I want to write js but using Shen sbcl syntax, will that be possible? Similar to the way PureScript allows you to compile Haskell-like syntax to js.

[Mark Tarver]

Yes; essentially.  That was the idea behind Shen under multiple platforms.  

Mark