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Guile Review

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Pros

Laura Kyle
Brian Levy

Pro
GNU's official extension language

Chances are a system running enough GNU software will already have it installed.

Zack H

Pro
Easy to customize and extend applications

Guile makes it easy for users of your application to write extensions without needing to understand the plumbing of your program.

Cons

gilch

Con
Weak copyleft

LGPL

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Guile
vs
Chicken
15 Recommendations
Racket
43 Recommendations
Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
8 Recommendations
Gambit
4 Recommendations
CMUCL
2 Recommendations
Hy
2 Recommendations
ClojureScript
83 Recommendations
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122 Recommendations
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72 Recommendations
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38 Recommendations
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