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Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for? by gus_massa on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:41AM (#12061410)
I vote for Racket. It's a scheme "dialect" (actually, it's officially a different language, but it's very close). It has a lot of libraries ("battery included") a nice IDE and extensive documentation. (for example, from the starter guide https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html )

Also, the idiomatic code is mostly functional, but you can write non functional code if necessary.

(And if you want more confusion, add Clojure to the Common Lisp / Scheme list. It's another similar language with lot of parenthesis. It's somewhat similar to Scheme but the difference is big enough to tell them apart easily. And it runs in the JVM.)

Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp/Scheme to go for? by kogir on Saturday July 09, 2016 @08:56PM (#12064075)
Racket's documentation is wonderful and the community around it is very welcoming and helpful.

I'm a huge fan and my only wish is that it supported OS threads so it was possible to fully utilize a machine with a single process.