Ask HN: Which Lisp should I learn?

Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp should I learn? by lumberjack on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:14AM (#24966070)

Last I touched Lisp I had settled on Chicken Scheme after trying them all. Don't quite remember why.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Lisp should I learn? by Jtsummers on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:06AM (#24969577)

When I was specifically learning and using Scheme I also settled on Chicken Scheme. For the following reasons:

1. It was very fast. Code written in it was comparable to the C code I was writing at the same time.

2. Very good C interop. Writing code to make use of C libraries was a near painless experience.

3. Very good collection of eggs (packages, think Rust's crates). I rarely needed to make use of (2).

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