Wireworld was part of the recurring Lisp Game Jam at itch.io [0] and the same jam also saw a submission by Spritely co-founder Christine Webber, called "Fantasary" [1] described as "prototype textual virtual world written on top of Spritely Goblins". The name is in reference to Fantasary [2] of the original Spritely project, representing a technology vision for object capabilities. Very cool.
[0] https://terpri.itch.io/wireworld
Small correction for the author:
> Copper stays copper, unless there are one or two electron heads in any cardinal direction, in which case it becomes an electron head
should be
> Copper stays copper, unless there are one or two electron heads in any neighboring cell, in which case it becomes an electron head
I spent ages trying to figure out how the generators were working in their example before I looked up the rules elsewhere.
This is really cool! Super exciting to see how far hoot has come!
> The real point of this blogpost isn't Wireworld itself, but how Hoot enabled making this Wireworld demo. [..] The last time we talked about Hoot (our Scheme->WASM project) we talked about directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly. This is of course the higher level goal of Hoot: since Spritely's tooling is written in Guile Scheme, we want Spritely to be in the browser, and compiling Scheme programs themselves to WebAssembly is a great way to accomplish that goal.
https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-hoot