> Chicken Scheme is in the same position. It has a pretty extensive library, extends far beyond R5RS, May be I am looking from Racket's vantage point, but chic

> Chicken Scheme is in the same position. It has a pretty extensive library, extends far beyond R5RS, May be I am looking from Racket's vantage point, but chicken scheme is R5R7 + some srfi. Compared to Racket which adds oop, myriad of languages(lazy, typed, datalog...), units, factories...chicken looks like a pretty loyal scheme. > It also has the great advantage of compiling down to C. I am curious. If I am not planning cross compilation, what other advantage compiling to C has? I can bundle the runtime to produce a standalone executable in case of racket as well("raco exe" and "raco dist"). Chicken produces smaller executable but that depends on libchicken. Static linking(for distribution, either I will have to bundle libchicken or static link) produces executable big enough that the size difference is negated.