Everything beside this is rendered by Goeteia.
The Scheme below is compiled to WebAssembly in your browser and mounted live.

booting the compiler…

Try changing a string, or drive the spell signal. This page carries the whole compiler (goeteia.wasm, ~70 KB gzipped, cached after first load); each recompile takes ~15 ms.

What's inside

Self-hosting, to the byte

The compiler is written in the Scheme subset it compiles. The self-hosted build recompiles itself and the output is byte-identical — the fixpoint is checked in CI fashion on every change, and every test runs through both stages.

Native Wasm GC objects

Fixnums are unboxed i31refs, pairs and records are GC structs, eq? is one ref.eq. No shadow heap in JavaScript: the host supplies two byte-stream imports and nothing else.

Hygienic macros

syntax-rules and procedural syntax-case with fenders, nested ellipses and datum->syntax, running in a compile-time interpreter with hygiene by renaming.

Real closures, real tail calls

Typed function references with a fast per-arity entry and a generic entry per closure — variadic procedures and apply are cheap, and every tail call is a return_call. A 100M-iteration loop runs in constant stack, in ~150ms.

The numeric tower

Fixnums promote to bignums on overflow (checked inline, two bit-compares), flonums have contagion, rationals and complex are exact, and float literals are encoded to IEEE-754 by pure Scheme — so both hosts emit identical bytes.

call/cc & dynamic-wind

Escape continuations ride the Wasm exception-handling proposal: capture is O(1), the normal path costs one try block, and winders unwind inner-to-outer on the way out.

A reactive web stack

(web sx) templates over fine-grained (web reactive) signals, an (web html) renderer, and a (web js) FFI that reaches straight into the host — this page is built with it.

Libraries

R6RS-style (library ...) files with (import (math utils)) resolution, dependencies first; exports are advisory because unused code is pruned anyway.

Quick start

$ git clone https://github.com/guenchi/Goeteia
$ cd Goeteia
$ ./run-tests.sh                # every test, both compiler stages
$ ./build-self.sh               # rebuild the compiler with itself

$ echo '(define (fact n) (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (fact (- n 1)))))
(fact 20)' > fact.ss
$ node rt/compile.mjs goeteia.wasm fact.ss fact.wasm
$ node rt/run.mjs fact.wasm
2432902008176640000

Compiled modules run on any engine with Wasm GC and tail calls: Node 22+, current Chrome / Firefox / Safari, wasmtime. Bootstrapping from source needs Chez Scheme; the checked-in compiler wasm works without it.