Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with the "dollar" egg.

[Daniel Carrera]

On 2 March 2014 18:27, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

Chicken is primarily a compiled Scheme: the interpreter is slow
and inefficient, and provided mostly for testing, debugging, and
simple scripting.  If you are interested in interpreter-based Schemes
exclusively, I recommend Chibi Scheme.

Chibi is clearly for embedding... I don't know... and it doesn't seem to have a module collection or documentation comparable to Chicken.

I just tried Chibi, but even with (chibi repl) I think its REPL is not as good as CSI with GNU Readline. I guess that in my ideal world I would like to play with a mature Scheme with many modules, that can be compiled, has FFI, a nice interpreter, and plans to support R7RS... So, I guess that what I want doesn't exist.

Cheers,

Daniel.

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