Discovery

I remember coming across “Qi” a long time ago, a work of brilliance by one Dr. Mark Tarver.

He happened to have a lot of quirky essays as well, and had … interesting interests.

Several years ago Qi morphed into Shen, a “kernel” that could be hosted on a variety of languages but exposed the ability to build

Loss

It seemed like something new was coming to pass, then … all of a sudden he deleted a bunch of web pages, stopped working, and I didn’t see anything new for a while, and … I lost touch.

Renaissance

Recently I wondered again (“what happened to that guy?“) and it turns out the project is very much alive and kicking!

• People are making Scheme implementations too, with recent releases
• The mailing list (still retaining the older Qi name) is active, with daily updates
• A recent roadmap/manifesto was released too.

Resources

• The “Book of Shen” has been updated to a 4th edition
• There is a new website that describes its unique features with examples

All this is encouraging, and worth checking into again soon.