Having fun with Chicken Scheme

Having fun with Chicken Scheme Switch from Guile Scheme to Chicken Scheme Lately have been dabbling in Guile Scheme. Guile Scheme is very fast and since is it the main development environment for Guix, its popularity is rising. I tried Chicken Scheme because it can create a stand-alone executable. This means that once compiled, it can run on systems where Chicken Scheme is not installed. Maybe this can be done too with Guile Scheme, but I haven't discovered a way to do that. Chicken Scheme compiles your code into an executable, no need to jump though hoops to do that. Chicken Scheme is fun Although my experience with Chicken Scheme is limited and I have been working with it for only a few weeks now, I have come to like it very much. Chicken Scheme is Scheme, and Scheme, like Lisp, is a wonderful language to work in. Because Chicken compiles to an executable, even during prototyping you immediately try out things on the command line. It is easy to create small personal applications.…