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Re: Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn

#11

Scheme is big and small at the same time. It is old, but the last report on the language was released a couple of years back and it is still growing. There is still many areas that needs some love. Checkout http://scheme-lang.com/

You beat me to it!

I'd recommend checking out Chicken Scheme. Not only is it a kick-butt implementation but its community, #chicken on Freenode, is truly fantastic.

Give it a whirl :)

Re: Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn

#14
there are plenty of older but less popular languages that could use some help to improve the ecosystem.

pharo smalltalk for example. (i can give you a list of things i'd like to have there right now.)

pike is a nice language with a small community. plenty of room for interesting things to add.

red-lang is another one that could use some help.

bonus: if you pick that up any of these three i'll offer to mentor you :-)

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