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		anta40 on Sept 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An opinionated guide to scheme implementations (20... So, if you prefer to get things done, e.g HTTP client (without re-inventing stuffs as much as possible), Chicken Scheme is a better choice?

mark_l_watson on Sept 5, 2022 [–]

Chicken is good for libraries as is Racket (that uses Chez for the backend). These are really practical alternatives.

I also really like Gambit and Gerbil that is built on top of Gambit. The maintainer of Gerbil seems to be into systems programming, and Gerbil supports that.

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