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"The problem with Scheme is all of the implementations that are incompatible with one another because they each add their own nonstandard feature set because th
by bitwize 8mo ago
"The problem with Scheme is all of the implementations that are incompatible with one another because they each add their own nonstandard feature set because the standard language is too small." Sometimes with an added subtext of "you fools, you should have just accepted R6RS, that way all Schemes would look like Chez Scheme or Racket and you'd avoid this problem".
Meanwhile in JavaScript land: Node, Deno, Bun, TypeScript, JSX, all the browser implementations which may or may not support certain features, polyfills, transpiling, YOLOOOOO