Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing chicken

[Sunnan]

Shawn W. wrote:
> For more specific tasks, some schemes are better suited than others -- 
> if you want good java integration instead of C, you'll want kawa.
Is kawa still being actively developed? I'm looking for a good java 
scheme and I haven't settled yet. (Sisc may be faster, and it may be the 
one I end up with, but it seems underdocumented to me.)

> If you want a small extension language for an existing program written 
> in something besides scheme, tinyscheme or guile come to mind.

If that something-beside-scheme is C, I'd probably go with Chicken.
> To get screaming fast numeric code.... stalin.  
Stalin doesn't currently support the numeric tower. (That said, I'm very 
impressed by what it can do.)

Chicken also has a few ways to more-or-less easily optimize your code, 
for example the crunch egg.

As for choosing chicken...
This thread might degenerate into AOL hell as everybody me-too:s, but 
for me it's ease of use, good continuation performance, many extensions, 
great community (+ felix!) and good integration with C and Unix.

Sunnan