Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by eatonphil » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 12:24 AM UTC

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by DASD » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:16 AM UTC

Folks may also be interested that this version, 6.0, supports Crunch(although Crunch itself has not been declared a 1.0 status, currently @ .993), which is a compiler for a statically typed subset of Scheme R7RS. (https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/6/crunch)

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by dvduval » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:21 AM UTC

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Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

dvduval wrote: post #3

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They’re patch notes for a release of some software that I can only assume is used by poultry to plot world domination.

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by orsenthil » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC

For an introduction:

CHICKEN is a compiler that translates Scheme source files into C, which in turn can be fed to a C compiler to generate a standalone executable. An interpreter is also available and can be used as a scripting environment or for testing programs before compilation.

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by trescenzi » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 1:57 AM UTC

I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really enjoyed it. So far I've mostly played with web stuff. Built a wrapper around makemkvcon for ripping some dvds I've been meaning to rip that'll do a little bit of automatic naming of output using the tv db.

I was slightly worried that I'd start using v5 and then v6 would come out but it looked like they'd been working on it for a while so I figured I'd have some time on v5. Turns out I was wrong!

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by ziotom78 » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:28 AM UTC

I was eagerly waiting for this release, which brings full Unicode support.

Congratulations to the team, Chicken Scheme is a little gem!

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by rmunn » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:39 AM UTC

For those who use Chicken Scheme: what made you pick it over other Lisps? What are some things it does particularly well?

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by personjerry » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

Disappointed to learn this is unrelated to the Chicken chicken chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Re: Chicken Scheme 6.0

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Post by whartung » Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC

rmunn wrote: post #8

For those who use Chicken Scheme: what made you pick it over other Lisps? What are some things it does particularly well?

The compiler. That’s the gem of the system.

The generated C is reasonably portable, so you can run Scheme programs on systems that “don’t run Scheme”.