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"And I want a pony!"

This page is intended to hold a "wish-list" of things that would be nice to have. There are no limits - go wild.

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Core system

• Make it smaller
• Make the source a human-readable paragon of software development brilliance
• Make it easy to target foreign architectures (cross-compiling) - cross-compilation is already supported pretty well, see man/4/Cross compilation for more information (felix)
  • Make it easy to create monoliths with no run-time demands to run on targets without chicken
• Provide hooks in the scheduler to enable extensions to implement native threading
  • Provide hooks in the garbage collector to implement native threading
• Allow for less copying when dealing with blobs, particularly when transferring to/from the FFI. I'd like to be able to take a void*+size_t pair from C and wrap it as a chicken blob that I can then view as a string or as an SRFI-4 vector with a make-.../shared call - and have a finalizer so that an arbitrary C callback (such a free) is invoked when the blob is GCed. This will make blob-shuffling apps such as Ugarit use less CPU and RAM.
• Add a compatibility module for the core of scsh.
• Weak References
• An better escape for C compiler options on the csc command line: Most configure scripts like sdl-config will output more flags than are currently recognised by csc as compiler flags. A more general approach could use -- as a separator for C compiler/linker flags: csc -O5 -s file.scm -- `sdl-config --libs` See the sdl egg for an ugly example of a kludge to dodge this issue.
• Threading: Make srfi-18 / scheduler use pthreads (instead of its current green threads) (already answered in the FAQ)

Eggs

• Something to handle multipart/form-data (HTTP requests)
• An IMAP Egg + ssl support
• A sawfish-like window manager (Mario)
• Awful-based implementation of the IPython Notebook
• Chicken-based Unix shell
• Complete MIME support (parsing+generating)
• Data lens (bidirectional transformations or parsing+unparsing from a single grammar specification)
• Bindings for photography and image manipulation related libraries: gphoto, libraw, lensfun, imagemagick, etc.
• Multithreaded FUSE support
• More spatial tree data structures: BK tree, MVP tree, etc.
• A framework for convenient manipulation of pools of Unix worker processes
• Chicken-based issue tracking and version control :-)
• RDF library (possibly just a simple port of the Gauche RDF library)
• A really clever high-level declarative DSL for creating WebKit GUIs
• A pandoc-style library
• SSAX-style queries for JSON data structures

Documentation

• Develop a production pipeline that turns the wiki manual pages into a manual that is easy to search online, downloadable as a single file so that it can be consulted offline, and, when printed, produces a beautifully formatted, indexed user manual.
• Turn the existing pages on internals into a detailed developer guide that is also easy-to-search, available in a single file, and printable as a beautiful document.