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When comparing SIOD vs Guile, the Slant community recommends Guile for most people. In the question“What are the best scheme implementations?” Guile is ranked 2nd while SIOD is ranked 78th. The most important reason people chose Guile is:
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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Current stable version3.0.0
PlatformsLinux, Windows, OSX
Typing disciplineDynamically typed
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Pros
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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.
Pro GNU's official extension language
Chances are a system running enough GNU software will already have it installed.
Pro Excellent documentation
The documentation provides conceptual overviews, tutorials, and a detailed reference for all commands, functions, and operators.
Pro Fantastic interface to C, C++ in both directions, embedding guile in C/C++ and embedding C/C++ in guile
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Con Weak copyleft
LGPL