Notices by The Spritely Institute (spritely@social.coop)

Spritely Goblins v0.16.1 has been released! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-16-1-released.html

This patch release includes several fixes! Most especially, OCapN + Goblins programs stopped compiling to Webassembly with Hoot (oops, it's fixed now!)

We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-27th-of-august/759

Tell us what you're hacking on with Spritely tools, tell us how it's going, ask us questions! Hope to see you!

Announcing Spritely Goblins v0.16.0! With MAJOR speedups and a brand new Unix Domain Socket netlayer! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-16-0-released.html

These speedups are HUGE! Multiple 10-20x speedups for core operations! And now you can use Goblins + OCapN with Unix Domain Sockets for local inter-process communication!

Spritely presented spirited speeches spanning the planet! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-presented-spirited-speeches-spanning-the-planet.html

If you've missed out on some of the many speeches we've given this year, here's a nice summary! Enjoy!

Goblinville: A Spring Lisp Game Jam 2025 retrospective https://spritely.institute/news/goblinville-a-spring-lisp-game-jam-2025-retrospective.html

We made a cute lil' multiplayer walk-around-and-plant-things demo for the last lisp game jam using Goblins, Hoot, and OCapN!

Functional hash tables explained https://spritely.institute/news/functional-hash-tables-explained.html

In this new blogpost, @dthompson talks about the theory behind HAMT based immutable hashtables, and how Goblins on Guile uses them for our new immutable hashtable representation!

Not only do we have the exciting news about Oaken today, but also there's a new patch release out: Hoot v0.6.1! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-6-1-released.html

New, easier deployment of Hoot programs with --bundle! A load of fixes! Lots of things!

(And just in time for the Lisp Game Jam, next week!)

Announcing Spritely Oaken: a project to build a secure language execution environment for Guile Scheme! Funded by NLNet and NGI Zero! https://spritely.institute/news/announcing-spritely-oaken.html

Blogpost by Oaken's lead author, @dpk !