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Shiro Kawai

shirok
Honolulu, HI

Hi! I'm probably known best as the author of Gauche, an R7RS Scheme implementation. I've been developing it for the past 20 years to make it the best tool to solve problems I encounter daily as a developer---easily scripted, featureful, and fast. I'd like to push the development forward to keep Gauche competitive among the programming language implementations.

I'm also eager to make Gauche support as many SRFIs (Scheme Requests for Implementation), including draft ones, as possible, to test out the new Scheme library and standard candidates. Your sponsorship will help me contribute to the Scheme community more.

When I'm not writing software, I'm auditioning for acting gigs, and occasionally land on roles in films and theatres.

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The sponsorship will go to develop and improve Gauche, an R7RS Scheme implementation. Writing a programming language implementation is rather easy, but keeping it robust, reliable and competitive, is hard. I've already been using Gauche for my commercial projects, but I'd like to enhance and grow Gauche more steadily, to show that Scheme can be applied to practical problems.

Current sponsors 12

@k16shikano
@omasanori
@athos
@ynaga36
@fukamachi
@jgonis
@lxkl
@svenha
@1995hnagamin
@ytaki0801
@camilledalmeras
@teppey

Past sponsors 9

@hirdot
@ljg13
Private Sponsor
@r6eve
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@bayprogrammer
@tsahara
@natsutan

Featured work

  1. shirok/Gauche

    Scheme Scripting Engine

    Scheme 787
  2. shirok/Gauche-makiki

    A simple multithreaded http server

    Scheme 33
  3. shirok/WiLiKi

    Wiki written in Gauche

    Scheme 24
  4. shirok/Gauche-LoL

    Source code in "Land of Lisp", ported to Gauche

    Scheme 38
  5. shirok/Chaton

    Web-based Chat server written in Gauche

    Scheme 11
  6. shirok/Gauche-gl

    OpenGL binding for Gauche

    C 7

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11% towards 100 monthly sponsors goal

@athos @ynaga36
@fukamachi @k16shikano @ytaki0801 @jgonis @omasanori

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Mahalo from Hawai`i! Your support is greatly appreciated.

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If you have a chance to visit Honolulu, drop me an email and we can chat over a coffee!

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Thank your for your enthusiasm. Whatever features you want in Gauche, I'll prioritize them as much as possible.

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Corporate sponsorship! I'll advertise your sponsorship on Gauche webpage and announcements.