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What commenters are saying
Commenters celebrated the new full Unicode support and R7RS compliance. The compiler's portability (generating C) and the egg ecosystem were cited as key strengths. Some praised the useful error messages and optional type definitions. A subthread debated Scheme vs. Common Lisp, with one commenter arguing Scheme's dependency on SRFIs and fragmented implementations makes it more convoluted for serious projects than using a subset of Common Lisp. Others defended Scheme's simplicity and noted Chicken's Crunch compiler for a statically typed Scheme subset.
What commenters are saying
Commenters celebrated the new full Unicode support and R7RS compliance. The compiler's portability (generating C) and the egg ecosystem were cited as key strengths. Some praised the useful error messages and optional type definitions. A subthread debated Scheme vs. Common Lisp, with one commenter arguing Scheme's dependency on SRFIs and fragmented implementations makes it more convoluted for serious projects than using a subset of Common Lisp. Others defended Scheme's simplicity and noted Chicken's Crunch compiler for a statically typed Scheme subset.