Presumably to run in the browser? Guile Scheme is great for native programs but you need Hoot to run it in a browser.

I think the second sentence of the article covers that pretty simply? To run it in the browser with wasm?

> One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot.

> Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?

Scheme is not a thing you use directly, you have to select an implementation. Hoot is one such implementation (targeting execution on WASM).