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Between Guile, Chicken and other *nix Schemes which would you recommend for general scripting and admin task automaton? Which has a more expansive library ecos

Between Guile, Chicken and other *nix Schemes which would you recommend for general scripting and admin task automaton? Which has a more expansive library ecosystem? I found that Clojure isn't the best fit for thEse tasks because of the start-up time and the JVM dependency.

davexunit 12y ago
Have you read http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide-to-scheme-implementations http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide... ? It might help you weigh your options and make a pick that best suits your preferences. I don't think you could go wrong with Guile or Chicken. I use Guile pretty much exclusively and it has a good POSIX API, so I write scripts in Scheme instead of Bash or Perl or whatever.
mquander 12y ago
Racket has loads of libraries and I used it happily for a long time for automating everyday tasks (recently I switched to Python since we use it at work and I needed to learn it.)
handojin 12y ago
disclaimer: no actual experience of this but... the scheme shell maybe? scsh.net here's some snippets: http://scsh.net/contrib/wiki/CodeSnippets.html http://scsh.net/contrib/wiki/CodeSnippets.html
current_call 12y ago
Racket is wonderful.