guile-fibers ☆

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Description:
Concurrent ML-like concurrency for Guile

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: concurrency scheme guile async csp fibers

Install: brew install guile-fibers

About:
GuileFibers is a library that brings Concurrent ML-style concurrency to the Guile Scheme interpreter. It provides lightweight cooperative threads (fibers) and channels for efficient asynchronous I/O and parallel task management. This enables developers to write highly concurrent network services and applications with straightforward synchronous-style code.

Key Features:

Lightweight concurrency primitives (fibers and channels)
Asynchronous I/O integration for high-performance networking
Concurrent ML-style synchronization and coordination
Seamless integration with Guile Scheme

Use Cases:

Building high-performance concurrent network servers
Implementing parallel data processing pipelines
Managing multiple I/O-bound tasks efficiently

Alternatives:

Guile-Async – Lower-level event loop library compared to Fiber's structured concurrency model
Go (Goroutines) – Similar CSP concurrency model but in a different language ecosystem

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jan 16, 2025 1:45pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	bdd03f70