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I was gonna say - I already have a language with the expressivity of Scheme, the convenience of Python, and the performance of C - it's called "Chez Scheme". Wh

by dTal 8y ago

I was gonna say - I already have a language with the expressivity of Scheme, the convenience of Python, and the performance of C - it's called "Chez Scheme". Why isn't it popular? Because A) the performant implementation was proprietary until relatively recently, and B) it's less "batteries included" and more "that drawer in your house full of batteries, most of which are dead". There's a great language in there, but it lacks the tooling and social structures for popularity.

nickpsecurity 8y ago
Racket is being ported to Chez Scheme. That might solve the batteries included problem at least at the Racket level. However, if you don't like Racket, then I don't know if it will do anything since using Racket's libraries in Chez might be too kludgy to attempt. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.html https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.h... Since you're a Chez fan, I'll also throw in its historical overview in case you missed it. That they had Scheme on 8-bitters really tripped me out. Talented team. https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf