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This project blew me away. I always thought Scheme was just interpreters and toy programs. Hope this succeeds in making scheme popular. Scheme and Lisps in gene

This project blew me away. I always thought Scheme was just interpreters and toy programs. Hope this succeeds in making scheme popular. Scheme and Lisps in general way too underrated.

codemac 9y ago
Each scheme is actually much better than people realize at what it's targeted for. Recently I have to give huge props to Guile + Andy Wingo for guile-fibers. It's proper concurrency, using delimited continuations in scheme. Just frickin' fantastic!
1337p337 9y ago
Stock Scheme does not have much in the way of interfaces to the outside world (long story) but there are several Scheme variants where people are doing larger projects. Racket is sort of a Scheme variant, and it seems to be the most popular, but Chicken and Guile are also pretty popular (as far as Scheme variants go) for real-world use cases.
- _delirium 9y ago
  Gambit is another one that has some real-world usage (it's what LambdaNative uses).
  - 1337p337 9y ago
    Yep, that's why I left it off the list. I've actually written some LambdaNative. Unfortunately, we ended up going with Cordova, but you can guess which one was more fun to write.