gerbil

Gerbil looks a lot like what one very prolific and opinionated hacker calls home. There's an incredible amount of work just by 1 author https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/graphs/contributors Whereas racket looks steered mainly by the academic group working on it, with some attention shifting to the new Rhombus project https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype These days everything looks like it's using json/yaml and trying to add logic/constraints to it to make it declarative, either through logic controllers (eg kubernetes operators) or by embedding it in the syntax, eg terraform HCL, declarative UI frameworks. Scheme DSLs are a good alternative and could be used to generate code or glue between the components you use.

Very exciting, I love Lisps. Here's the tutorial for anyone else looking: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/doc/guide.md

Finding the docs took me less time than writing this comment. Here you go: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil

Repo is here: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil Plenty of examples within.

You should try Gerbil, a dialect built on Gambit Scheme. You can find it at https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil. I suggest you look into https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/doc/tutorial/http... for a simple HTTP server :)

In case of anyone interested a reasonable engineered language that supports Closure Serialization (mentioned as "hard" in last slide), checkout: Gambit Scheme: A fast scheme implementation. http://github.com/gambit/gambit Gerbil Scheme: Provides full module and syntactic tower on top of Gambit Scheme. https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil

I think it's usually to provide extra features. For example, Gerbil has a more advanced macro and module system than most Scheme implementations. It's also very easy to do because you're bascially given an AST for your new Scheme that you transform into the base Scheme. Gerbil's docs have an example of this: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/blob/master/doc/tutorial/lang...