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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

Commonly Compared

Guile
vs
Chicken
17 Recommendations
Racket
48 Recommendations
Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
8 Recommendations
Gambit
4 Recommendations
Hy
2 Recommendations
CMUCL
2 Recommendations
ClojureScript
86 Recommendations
Clojure
137 Recommendations
Common Lisp
47 Recommendations
Lua
78 Recommendations
Julia
37 Recommendations
Ruby
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