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I think Scheme, however elegant, is just not really a practical language, especially its standard library situation.

• mhitza 1y ago
  Making it clear that I never worked with Racket... Guile was the most ergonomic Scheme I used. Great documentation, "mostly" batteries included, and a while loop macro (the blasphemy, but the convenience!). The reason I switched was that I wanted to use my small programs on servers, and with Chicken Scheme it was easy to build a statically linked executable. Guile should definitely be packageable as such, if someone versed in C has the patience, but it isn't out of the box and there are no "project templates" out there.
• mark_l_watson 1y ago
  Just my personal opinion: Racket and Gerbil Scheme are the most useful Schemes because of their fairly rich standard libraries. There are other Schemes I like to play with but I don’t do much with. Sorry for the plug, but I wrote a Racket book last year and I am just now about 20% of the way through a Gerbil Scheme book. I have a luxury: I am retired so I can write on topics that fascinate me, even if I get small audiences.
  • rcarmo 1y ago
    It's a good plug. I've had an eye on Gerbil for a while, and miss the batteries included aspect of Python when compared to overall Schemes
• zelphirkalt 1y ago
  The standard library can be very practical, if it implements the SRFIs you need. And Guile implements quite a lot of them.