> None of the modern web would be around though because we’d still be waiting for a sufficiently advanced compiler. Huh? This doesn’t make any sense. I don’t t

> None of the modern web would be around though because we’d still be waiting for a sufficiently advanced compiler. Huh? This doesn’t make any sense. I don’t think people have done a lot of Scheme JITs, but Scheme has some pretty damn impressive compilers—Chez[1] first and foremost. Certainly ones with better codegen than pre-V8 JavaScript ones. Scheme (the standard fragment) is less dynamic than JavaScript, not more (which has been used as an argument against that fragment by more OG-Lisp-inclined people). (The one potenial problem I can name is tail calls—IME LuaJIT is much, much worse at compiling Lua’s Scheme-like proper tail calls than it is at the same code expressed as a loop. But then the price for LuaJIT’s small size is that it’s a bit picky at which code it’s willing to compile well. Production JS engines probably handle that better, if at a cost of a couple of orders of magnitude more code.) [1] https://www.scheme.com/ https://www.scheme.com/