What's new is where a lot of independent programmers are. What's necessary is for something very practical to require scheme. Ruby would still be a hobbyists l

What's new is where a lot of independent programmers are. What's necessary is for something very practical to require scheme. Ruby would still be a hobbyists language if Rails didn't come along. Perhaps arc could help here in the future but even the scheme community isn't totally amped on arc and therefore not rallying behind it. Erlang seems better suited to be the next big lang than scheme. It has already found it's way into some of the big names like facebook and amazon, demonstrating practical importance, while solving problems that are still hard in other languages. cough concurrency...