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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by noctuid on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:15PM (#11574716)
See GuixSD: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

Edit: remove useless commentary

Re:Chez Scheme is now free by davexunit on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:20PM (#11574759)
I also use GNU Guix and Shepherd on top of Ubuntu at work. Shepherd manages all of my user daemons (mostly Ruby web application servers) and Guix as an RVM (and other such tool) replacement. Is that practical enough?
Re:Chez Scheme is now free by chubot on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:20PM (#11575291)
There's a big difference between "practical" and being the foundation of software (and I guess people ARE still trying to make that happen; it's not a strawman).

Emacs Lisp is probably a better example of practical.

Re:Chez Scheme is now free by nickpsecurity on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:00AM (#11577927)
Or LispWorks or Franz Allegro (esp AllegroCache) that have made real money for years by letting people code circles around others with better tooling. Scripting languages have closed the gap a lot but not fully. I'd say at least two commercial tools are quite practical.
Re:Chez Scheme is now free by noctuid on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:41PM (#11574935)
Sure I agree that both are examples of real software written in scheme.