It is preposterous to expect people to write their own HTTPS support on top of something as primitive as GnuTLS! This attitude towards practicality, if you wil

It is preposterous to expect people to write their own HTTPS support on top of something as primitive as GnuTLS! This attitude towards practicality, if you will, that runs rampant in scheme-land is one of the major barriers for adoption. If you look at Common Lisp, these issues do not exist, the end result being a multitude of substantial real-world projects across a variety of domains (commercial, opensource, academia, industry and so on).