Chicken is in many ways my favourite scheme. It is pragmatic and has what I think is the most welcoming community I have ever encountered. Coming from ruby and

Chicken is in many ways my favourite scheme. It is pragmatic and has what I think is the most welcoming community I have ever encountered. Coming from ruby and python to scheme, I was always surprised how fast things were. In python I was always trying to avoid going outside the C things in the stdlib, but in scheme I have gotten a fast experience while also being able to hack on the code base (I am at best a bad C programmer).