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iameli
Is this named after the Protoss Executor Artanis?
shakna
I've used this in production once.

Mostly able to because Guile's web server is standard, and if you need to bypass the framework, you can rather easily.

It's more than fast enough for most people's needs. Flexible, because Scheme, and Artanis' design will be familiar to all the Flask/etc devs.

rolandog
Beautiful and clean website (loads well without JS and fonts); not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... I swear, HN crowd can be often worse than Mean Girls.

About Artanis itself... It looks really cool! Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly?

I see they are dogfooding on the Guix packages website, so... I'm guessing it's pretty well tested.

edoloughlin
> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry...

As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions...

What need you, being come to sense,

But fumble in a greasy till

And add the halfpence to the pence

And prayer to shivering prayer, until

You have dried the marrow from the bone

aorlov_a
I so appreciate the website. So easy to read makes it appealing to try the framework, especially taking into account the most recent experience writing on Scheme was back in college 15 years ago.
neilv
Just a comment on APIs in Scheme...

If you're defining a Web server route handler, it's reasonable to do it as you would in most languages, like this package's example:

    (get "/hello/:who"
      (lambda (rc)
        (format #f "<p>hello ~a</p> " (params rc "who"))))
But the following might be easier syntax extension in Scheme, in which each variable URL path element can be mapped for the programmer directly to a Scheme variable binding in the closure:

    (define-http-get-route ("/hello/" who)
      (format #f "<p>hello ~a</p> " who))
(Of course, you'd also have a function to sanitize/escape `who` before injecting it into the HTML.)
mmargerum
Disappointed they didn’t use hiccup to generate html. Format?
rcarmo
I have to wonder why Guile hasn’t become more popular over the years, frameworks or not. It ships with so many distributions that the ease of access is there, but I’ve yet to come across any significant code base using it for web apps.