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> New feature: GNU Guile integration

Because if there's one thing the GNU software-building toolchain needs, it's more languages! How many are we up to now?

Grouping output by target for parallel builds sounds very useful though \o/

Guile is the official GNU extension language, so it makes sense. Guile's goal is to provide practical software freedom by allowing more GNU programs to be extensible in the way that Emacs is.

I think it's great. In the future all GNU tools will probably be extensible with Scheme.

Can't wait for EMACS with scheme support.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

How's that going anyway? It seems GNUcache, Lilypond and TeXmacs are already using guile (and geda also but that doesn't seem to be part of GNU). So make is the fourth Guile-using GNU project?

There are more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile#Programs_using_Guile

But GNU Make seems to be the first major one.

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