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Practical Scheme

https://practical-scheme.net/index.html#docs
30•ufko_org•3h ago

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valorzard•2h ago
What scheme do I used if I want to compile to a standalone executable on both Linux and windows? (That’s not Racket)
ducklord•2h ago
https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
shawn_w•2h ago
Kawa + GraalVM?

I think there's been some work lately to improve Chicken's Windows support.

cess11•1h ago
Likely Chez, but you provide too little information to be sure what might be a good option.
valorzard•29m ago
I’ve tried chez exe and I can’t tell if it’s bit rotted or if it just doesn’t work on windows anymore
forgotpwd16•1h ago
Gauche that is hosted on this site can do it. It does by statically linking the entire Gauche system so may not be the best option. Besides Chez (compiling to native code) that sibling comments mentioned, other options are CHICKEN and Gambit compiling to C (CHICKEN docs provide instructions to even cross-compile[0]).

[0]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Cross%20development#cross-deve...

zem•1h ago
i am fairly sure chicken can do this (never used it on windows myself but the homepage lists all three major platforms). it worked great for building executables on linux and it had a good ecosystem of packages.
valorzard•28m ago
I’ve been able to build chicken on Linux kinda, but no dice on windows Edit: oh woops the maintainers responded to me on the mailing list! I should probably respond back https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2025-10/...
hedari•59m ago
Others have already pointed out several good options. Let me add one more: Gambit Scheme https://gambitscheme.org/
valorzard•25m ago
I might try this next, will check out and try to build it tomorrow Shame that there’s no way to run ./configure on native windows though, I’ll have to use MSYS2
whateveracct•2h ago
ctrl+F "chez"

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why? it's so good

cess11•1h ago
It's represented where appropriate, e.g. here:

https://practical-scheme.net/wiliki/schemexref.cgi?ChezSchem...

forgotpwd16•1h ago
Page doesn't seem to be all-inclusive in vein of awesome lists (such as github:schemedoc/awesome-scheme) but concentrated to author's own projects (Gauche and apps/libs). And maybe doesn't get updated beyond those (e.g. Bigloo homepage has been moved to https://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/ years ago; probably before Chez became open which may be another reason it didn't made it to the list).
GuestFAUniverse•1h ago
Where's the "practical" one that site really reflected?

I liked scheme as a learning tool and got highest grades. That doesn't change my impression that most of the sites covering it are mental masturbation. Puzzles, or programs for the sake of scheme itself. Where's the stuff to solve real world problems? (OK, mostly solved by other languages anyway... Still: where is the content that really wants a junior to try it out for routine problems and the senior tonstay with it?)

forgotpwd16•16m ago
What you consider practical enough? The page links to a wiki software, a chat server, and a text preprocessor. Not popular sure but all are useful, practical programs you can use.
neilv•1h ago
I don't know how practical this Web site is: the front page has very old information, and no recent information.
zippyman55•1h ago
My funny Scheme story. My work place was using it in production, 1999. A ton of code was written by a VERY SMART (and famous) person and of course it worked. He delivered it under pressure, ahead of schedule and it just worked. Ok, but my frustration was that we could not find anyone to support the decoders. So, I could have 300 resumes, and zero would reference scheme. So, there I was one Sunday, a church greeter, greeting people before church on a Sunday. And a fellow greeter brought up software, and I somewhat went off on Scheme as to how difficult it was to find interview candidates for the system. Then, I turn around to greet the next person, and he had a Fricken Scheme Polo Shirt with a prominent Lambda. I am not sure if he heard me.
neilv•1h ago
Obviously that was divine intervention.

Atheists in 1999 might have to go Usenet comp.lang.scheme to find Scheme experts.

(Scheme polo shirt at church in 1999? My first guess is around Rice University. Second guess is Indiana.)

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Practical Scheme

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