Hoot Scheme to WebAssembly compiler
Shares rank 16 of 26 compilers by recommenders
People recommend it as a well-done way to run Scheme in WebAssembly, with a full Wasm toolchain usable as a library.
People recommend it as a well-done way to run Scheme in WebAssembly, with a full Wasm toolchain usable as a library.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Admired work by its makers
“IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Hoot 0.8.0 released with more live dev tools” “They do crazy interesting work!”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile” “It's such an amazing project”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly” - Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly”
Serious, well-built Scheme-to-Wasm implementation
“Hoot is one of the few Scheme-to-Wasm implementations that takes advantage of the GC support”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “Scheme Is a Hoot” “does a very good job of running scheme in web assembly”
Comment from 12 Jul 2026 in “A pure scheme web programming tool” “Hoot is also not a 2 day old vibecoded project.”
Comment from 12 Jul 2026 in “A pure scheme web programming tool” Interesting underlying WebAssembly tech
“The underlying tech might be more fun”
Comment from 23 Aug 2026 in “A Friendly Introduction to Racket” “because of Hoot, wasm compiler”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released”
Other compilers people recommend
The four most recommended other compilers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCC | 138 | 123 | 53% | 12 | 15 yrs9 owners | — |
| Clang | 74 | 50 | 60% | 12 | — | — |
| Free Pascal compiler | 38 | 7 | 84% | 11 | — | Approved |
| GraalVM Native Image | 31 | 9 | 78% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Hoot Scheme to WebAssembly compilerThis page | 8 | 2 | 80% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The underlying tech might be more fun”
“because of Hoot, wasm compiler”
“Hoot is also not a 2 day old vibecoded project.”
“does a very good job of running scheme in web assembly”
“Hoot is one of the few Scheme-to-Wasm implementations that takes advantage of the GC support”
“If the purpose is to run Scheme, run Scheme: why jump through Hoots oops I mean hoops.”
“IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere”
“repl.wasm is 1.6 MiB. Seems a bit much.”
“Glad to see stuff like this”
“sandboxing via WASM to be able to safely iterate without human intervention - which Hoot has as well”
“It's such an amazing project”
“It's not only a Scheme compiler but a full Wasm toolchain available as a library.”
“They do crazy interesting work!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.