Guild is will be a cross-platform operating environment built in Racket. Not an operating system, or a shell, but an operating environment - like an OS, but functionally just a shell atop an existing OS. It's called "Guild" because I was originally going to use GNU Guile, but decided to use Racket at the last moment for cross-platform reasons (i.e. Guile is not on Windows).
Guild isn't real yet. Don't expect it to be real. If you think it's real, you will be disappointed. But rest assured it will become real soon. And by soon I mean whenever I feel like it. I seriously just parked this repository here early...
- Cross-platform
- Guild will be available for Windows, macOS and Linux at a minimum.
- Completely free/libre software
- Guild is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0, so no one can use it for non-free stuff.
- Written entirely in Racket
- Writing Guild entirely in Racket ensures it can be used in basically any Racket environment.
- Hyper-extensible with Racket (like GNU Emacs with Elisp)
- Designing Guild for extensibility will enable users to create whatever they want for Guild, just like how Emacs' extensibility allows users to write basically anything they want for the editor.
- Suitable as a shell replacement
- Guild will be designed with a
sh-like interface from the beginning, making it suitable for use as a shell replacement.
- Guild will be designed with a
- Suitable as a development environment
- Guild's planned extensibility will allow users to write programming extensions for the environment, allowing for a wide variety of development workflows.
- Suitable as an API for other Racket projects
- Guild will provide a standard library and API (Application Programming Interface) for other Racket projects to take advantage of the Guild environment.
- Suitable as a pseudo-operating system
- One of Guild's top priorities is providing an operating system-like interface on top of an existing operating system, even if that system is a bare-bones Arch system.
- Provides abstractions for OS-specific functionality
- Guild will provide abstractions for OS-specific functionality, such as filesystem access, process management, etc.
Don't.
Seriously, don't.
It's not ready yet.
- Decide to use GNU Guile
- Name the project "Guild"
- Realise Guile is not available for Windows
- Decide to use Racket instead
- Install Racket
- Set up Guild's structure
- Write some Racket code just to test
- Write something that gives the illusion of a real Guild environment
- Split off the core into separate files
- Implement Lisp evaluation
- Write something resembling a standard library
- Documentation
- This README
- Docstrings
- Documentation files
- User manual
- Outline an API
- Go insane trying to code the API
- Actually code the API
- Was that it?
- Come up with more things to add to the plan