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Chicken
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Friendly, welcoming community
The Chicken community is very helpful and friendly.
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Lacks numeric tower support
The core system currently does not support the full numeric tower. However, there is an extension library available.
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Well documented
Chicken has easy to navigate and understand documentation that's updated frequently.
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Lacks proper UTF-8 support
For more detail see http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1374 It's been up there for 9 months, still not fixed.
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Easy to embed
Likewise, FFI is very simple compared to most Scheme implementations.
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Compiles to native code
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chicken-doc
It has a tool named chicken-doc. With its help you can easily add autocomplete and documentation features to your favorite editor.
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Permissive BSD License
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Guile
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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.
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Weak copyleft
LGPL
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GNU's official extension language
Chances are a system running enough GNU software will already have it installed.
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Excellent documentation
The documentation provides conceptual overviews, tutorials, and a detailed reference for all commands, functions, and operators.
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Fantastic interface to C, C++ in both directions, embedding guile in C/C++ and embedding C/C++ in guile
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Linux, Windows, OSX
Current stable version:
3.0.0
Typing discipline:
Dynamically typed
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Racket
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Realm of Racket is an excellent entry-level guidebook
Realm of Racket teaches the big-bang approach for managing world state. It does so by walking the reader through the development of small games. There are few guidebooks that are as useful and entertaining.
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Racket was designed to teach functional programming from the start
Racket is based on Scheme (LISP Family) and is very similar to Clojure. So there are a ton of (). The reason it is easier to learn is that it is not trying to be "Pure" if there is even such a thing in terms of Functional Programming. The great thing about Racket is it has everything included. You get DrRacket for developing programs. You want to add a picture to your software you can insert pictures. If you want to add libraries just open the package manager. The Syntax is an opinion but it really does feel easier to see what is happening since everything is in brackets) Racket is a really a Programming Language for making Programming Languages. So there are smaller syntax Racket called Student Racket which makes things easier to pick up.
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Free resources to Learn
Includes several free online books and great documentation.
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Great RPEL IDEA included Dr. Racket
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Active community
Racket has an active community of users/developers that makes it easy to get help when needed.
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Syntax fits to functional programming
Although syntax is different from that of mainstream languages, S-expressions are a perfect match to functional programming.
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Subtly encourages functional programming
Racket makes it inconvenient to pursue imperative habits while encouraging functional programming by Lisps's syntax. For example, the syntax for defining a function is almost the exact same as defining a variable. In addition, Racket has a strong set of higher-order functions built in to the language.
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Easily embeddable
Racket is famously embedded in the game engine underlying Naughty Dog's Uncharted and The Last of Us games, because it proved to be so easy to embed.
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Platforms:
Linux, Windows, OSX
Price:
Free
Current stable version:
8.5
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https://racket-lang.org
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Not made to run as standalone
Cannot be compiled to a standalone executable, only to byte code that can be run from the interpreter; and cannot be conveniently interpreted by the interpreter from the command line.
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Not very well-documented
The documentation is very sparse.
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Poor Windows support
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Ill-designed interpreter's interface
The interpreter does not support the use of the left and right arrows to move the cursor in the code and the use of the up and down arrows to navigate through the history.
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