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If you want batteries included and probably the nicest runtime of all the lisps I would suggest racket. I use guile since I think it more fun, but racket is a
by bjoli 6y ago
If you want batteries included and probably the nicest runtime of all the lisps I would suggest racket.
I use guile since I think it more fun, but racket is a lot easier if you want libraries around.
- potta_coffee 6y agoRacket really is nice if you don't know what you want to do and you want to be hacking on some code in less than five minutes. I think I have Racket installed on every computer I own.
- gypsyharlot 6y agoThank you for the feedback! In what way is Guile more fun?
- bjoli 6y agoBecause I can understand the whole implementation. I am no programmer, but the racket source is somewhere between "magic" and "more magic" to me. I managed to patch guile to fold equal? to eq? when the comparisons involved literal symbols, chars or fixnums. (Although maybe not in the best way, it still worked). I apparentlynnerd-sniped Andy so he implemented it properly as a part of the expander (I think). That took me less than an hour starting from a cursory understanding of the guile codebase.