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Can it be used as a interpreter once compiled to not need a compiler?

This isn't quite a standards conforming Scheme just yet.

On the other hand, Hoot supports WASM-GC on release [0], and has had wasm support for a few years now. (Though Safari support has been a pain point - they've found a few bugs in WebKit's wasm support.)

[0] https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-6-1-released.html

Thankfully, Safari and iOS now have the necessary bug fixes to run wasm binaries generated by hoot without issue.

Just eyeballing it really quickly, it doesn’t look like it’s got the built-ins you’d want to quickly built a REPL (i.e. read or eval). It’s not really Scheme, yet.

It’s written in C, so you could compile that to wasm and then compile & run all inside the browser (I guess, assuming wasm is cool with that sort of thing, not a wasm guy here).

You can do that kind of JIT code generation with WASM but you need to compile a separate module and load and link things up in JS (doable but not technically within pure WASM, so it won’t work in standalone runtimes)

I couldn't find evidence of an interpreter on the scm2wasm github page, but I only did a shallow look.

Hoot (uses Guile Scheme), mentioned above, has a working interpreter, to quote...

   "The toolchain is self-contained and even features a Wasm interpreter for testing Hoot binaries without leaving the Guile REPL."

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