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LOP is cool and interesting, but I'm much more interested in a "batteries included" scheme dialect. Is there another language with devs more aligned to that in

LOP is cool and interesting, but I'm much more interested in a "batteries included" scheme dialect. Is there another language with devs more aligned to that interest?

_emacsomancer_ 7y ago
I think Racket is probably a good bet for a 'batteries included' Scheme dialect (and I think rather than Racket2, including more batteries would attract more people to Racket, but I digress...) - it has good crossplatform GUI options, for instance.
- liability 7y ago
  Yeah, I've been using racket/gui a lot and it would be a real drag to use GTK ffi bullshit or whatever instead.
neilv 7y ago
I wouldn't say "batteries included" about any of them, by comparison to Python. Some to look at: Racket, Guile, Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, Scheme48 (and Scsh).
- peatmoss 7y ago
  I’ve been looking at Gerbil lately, which seems to add some creature comforts, has some opinionated views, and is built atop Gambit: https://cons.io/ https://cons.io/
  - neilv 7y ago
    I think that one was started by vyzo, and I'm happy to see it with ongoing git activity. I'll have to take a closer look. vyzo previously contributed to Racket (then called PLT Scheme): http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?owner=vyzo http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?owner=vyzo (PLaneT is the nice earlier package system. The current one is "https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/" https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/", but I think vyzo had left by then, or at that time. I should mention: I wouldn't read much into the Open Tickets on that page not having action -- tickets were a feature someone added without some prominent package authors even knowing about it, at a time when authors were expecting to be emailed, so it could be sadly counterproductive. Even if you did eventually learn it existed and people were posting tickets, but didn't want to keep checking and using a Web site (this was before current GitHub conventions), nor wind up with the situation of bug reporters you couldn't contact for more info, you couldn't turn if off.)

LOP is cool and interesting, but I'm much more interested in a "batteries included" scheme dialect. Is there another language with devs more aligned to that interest?

_emacsomancer_ 7y ago

I think Racket is probably a good bet for a 'batteries included' Scheme dialect (and I think rather than Racket2, including more batteries would attract more people to Racket, but I digress...) - it has good crossplatform GUI options, for instance.

liability 7y ago
Yeah, I've been using racket/gui a lot and it would be a real drag to use GTK ffi bullshit or whatever instead.

neilv 7y ago

I wouldn't say "batteries included" about any of them, by comparison to Python. Some to look at: Racket, Guile, Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, Scheme48 (and Scsh).

peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve been looking at Gerbil lately, which seems to add some creature comforts, has some opinionated views, and is built atop Gambit: https://cons.io/ https://cons.io/
- neilv 7y ago
  I think that one was started by vyzo, and I'm happy to see it with ongoing git activity. I'll have to take a closer look. vyzo previously contributed to Racket (then called PLT Scheme): http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?owner=vyzo http://planet.racket-lang.org/display.ss?owner=vyzo (PLaneT is the nice earlier package system. The current one is "https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/" https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/", but I think vyzo had left by then, or at that time. I should mention: I wouldn't read much into the Open Tickets on that page not having action -- tickets were a feature someone added without some prominent package authors even knowing about it, at a time when authors were expecting to be emailed, so it could be sadly counterproductive. Even if you did eventually learn it existed and people were posting tickets, but didn't want to keep checking and using a Web site (this was before current GitHub conventions), nor wind up with the situation of bug reporters you couldn't contact for more info, you couldn't turn if off.)