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Awesome Scheme
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Advocacy
Standards
Implementations
Compiling to Native Code
Based on Another Scheme
- Gerbil: R7RS, compiles to C, based on Gambit, extends gambit with better macro and module systems.
- Racket: R6RS, beginner friendly, full Windows support, optional
typing, essentially a superset of scheme, tons of libraries, moving/moved to a Chez Scheme backend.
Compiling to C
- CHICKEN: R5RS and R7RS, beginner friendly, exceptional community, unique implementation of GC.
- Cyclone: R7RS, experimental extension of Chicken-style GC with native thread support.
- Gambit: R5RS, official installers also for
macOS, iOS, Windows, considered quite fast.
- Bigloo: R5RS, can also compile to Java-Virtual-Machine (JVM) classes,
limited optional typing.
Bytecode VMs and JVM/CLR
- Chibi-Scheme: R7RS
- Gauche: R7RS, compiles to standalone
executable, official installers also for Windows, Docker.
- GNU Guile: R6RS, getting JIT executable support soon, beginner friendly, officially supported by GNU, scripting language for many pieces of GNU software.
- IronScheme: R6RS, based on Common-Language-Runtime (CLR).
- Kawa: R7RS, based on JVM, compile to JVM classes, limited optional typing.
- STklos: R7RS except that
syntax-rules only has partial hygiene and lexical scope; ad-hoc portable VM, with CLOS-like object system.
Based on JavaScript
- BiwaScheme: R6RS, partial R7RS, compiler to intermediate represantion + VM
- LIPS: R7RS, most of the spec is written in core Scheme, good interop with JavaScript
Implemented in Python
- Calysto Scheme: Partial R6RS, written in Scheme, transpiled to Python.
Package Managers
- Akku: for portable R6RS and R7RS libraries
- Snow: for portable R7RS libraries
- GNU Guix: purely-functional package manager and GNU/Linux distro
- Racket Packages: for Racket libraries and applications
Books
Research Papers
Editors and IDEs
- Geiser: most comprehensive Emacs support for many Scheme implementations (MELPA)
- Scheme-langserver: a new scheme language server focusing on digesting incomplete scheme source code and giving out useful language features. It's different from other REPL counterparts for it provides local identifier auto complete and many other functionalities.
Applications
Web Development
- SXML: very popular S-expression representation of XML/HTML
- CSS-expressions: S-expression representation of CSS (Racket)
- chibi html-parser: lenient HTML parser (R7RS; Docs; Akku, Snow)
Text Processing
- Scribble: popular, somewhat lightweight Scheme-based markup language (Racket, R7RS)
- Skribilo: TeX/LaTeX-like document processor with Scheme scripting
- Skribe and Scheme Scribe: older Scheme-based document processors from INRIA
- Pollen: a fancy typesetting system for writing entire books in Racket
Graphics, Music, Audio, Video
- LilyPond: music notation language with Scheme scripting
- libfive: script-driven solid modeling CAD based on Guile
- Fluxus: portable 3D game engine for live coding in Scheme
- Impromptu: live coding with Scheme on macOS
- Extempore: portable live coding in Scheme
- Scheme For Max: live coding with Scheme in Max/MSP
Languages and Computation
- Nanopass Framework: a DSL for factoring compilers into many small passes and IRs
- Harlan: a Scheme-based programming language for GPU computing
- packrat: a PEG parser generator with a Scheme DSL (Akku, Chicken, Racket)
- r6rs-pffi - portable foreign-function interface for several implementations (R6RS; Home & Docs; Akku)
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