The best scheme implementations, according to hackers
5 scheme implementations recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
All scheme implementations
- Chicken SchemeA Scheme implementation people recommend for its easy, productive C interop, its compilation to portable C, and its simple library system. Critics mention a maze of eggs and SRFIs.25recommend
- GNU GuileFree Scheme implementation people praise for expressiveness, performance, and use in Guix. Critics agree debugging and stack traces are weak.24recommend
- Chez SchemeFast optimizing Scheme compiler with small native binaries; critics find its source hard to read and setup rough.23recommend
- S7 SchemePeople recommend S7 Scheme as a small, easy-to-embed Scheme: one header and C file, with no extra foot guns. No criticism recurs in the quotes.7recommend
- Gambit SchemeRecommended for a fast, optimizing Scheme that compiles to C and standalone binaries and integrates well with C-family code. Caveat: the built-in library is fairly minimal.5recommend