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chibi-scheme
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesChibi seems to rely on Cygwin/MSYS for Windows which is a pretty heavy dependency (and very non-Lua).
https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme/blob/master/README-wi...
In The Fennel Programming LanguageYour core point is absolutely true about how Lisp is special in that it usually provides a read procedure to turn a textual type into a native object that can be evaluated (this is a side effect of homoiconicity, so any homoiconic language will have this property too), but I have one additional nitpick to make ontop of yours:
> [...] eval can take any lisp object and evaluate it.
eval cannot be generalized to accepting any Lisp object, only specifically symbolic expressions (symbols, or lists (potentially nested) of symbols). I discovered this because I thought Chibi Scheme was throwing a warning for valid code[0] to inject a value into an expression for eval, but Marc helped me understand that the warning was correct, because Scheme only specifies what eval does for symbolic values.
[0] https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme/issues/902
In Debugging compilers in ClojureChibi-Scheme: a small library intended for in C programs
2 points · Open discussionI think a VM for a small, but highly abstract, language like Scheme might address the objections of the author(s) of this article. You might like Chibi-Scheme: https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme
Having said that, IMO, if you're having fun with uxn and its retro 8-bit aesthetic, by all means keep going with that.
In I don't want to go to Chel-CChibi Scheme – Minimal Scheme Implementation for Use as an Extension Language
2 points · Open discussionOther small, embeddable schemes that are worthy of notice:
* S9fes: https://github.com/bakul/s9fes
* Chibi: https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme
Both are just a couple of files to add to your project, and easily extended with good built-in features.
I've also had a lot of luck embedding Chicken. It's quite straightforward to do, and with the boon of being able to compile Scheme to C to include directly.
In s7 – Scheme implementation intended as extension language for other applicationsChibi Scheme is sort of a spiritual successor:
https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme
In A Little Scheme Setup and Development on the Galaxy S9 PlusI'm a fan of TeX2page[1] for converting (La)TeX to HTML. There are also similar TeX/Scribe-inspired markup processors. Scribble[2] comes to mind, and Chibi Scheme[3] even comes with a very lightweight, very configurable "Scribble" processor in the form of `chibi-doc`. Chibi's flavor is a little more similar to TeX (using '\' as the leader rather than '@', for example), if that's important to you.
[1]: https://ds26gte.github.io/tex2page/index.html
[2]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html
[3]: http://synthcode.com/wiki/chibi-scheme
And here's Chibi's own manual written in it: https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme/blob/master/doc/chibi...
I think it would be freakishly easy to adapt chibi-doc into a general text preprocessor rather than an HTML generator, and honestly I've thought about it before. I may just do it yet :)
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