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Re:Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and ... by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:26AM (#26062789)
One thing I find fascinating is that it feels like Common Lisp, Racket and Clojure are talked about a lot, but from the top of my head I would not be able to name everyday software or tools written in any of them.

Meanwhile I rarely encounter discussions and talk about Guile while at the same time seeing it "everywhere" (Guix, embedded scripting in GDB, Gnucash).

This is just my personal feeling though.

Re:Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and ... by chriswarbo on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:52AM (#26062957)
Guile is the 'official extension language' for GNU projects; i.e. for embedding into C programs, for scripting, macros, writing plugins, etc. This gives it a boost in popularity (similar to how JS got a boost from being the 'official extension language' of the Web; although on a massively different scale!)

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Applications I've personally used StumpWM and ACL2; and Cyc is a rather prominent project.

One notable application that's written in Racket is Hacker News! (It's written in 'Arc', which is implemented using Racket).

Re:Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and ... by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Monday February 08, 2021 @06:23AM (#26063161)
Oh yeah I think I should add that it was certainly not my intention to downplay the more popular lisps or their applications!
Re:Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and ... by pjmlp on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:19AM (#26064742)
Re:Guile – Scheme Implementation Supporting R5RS, R6RS, and ... by evgen on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:52AM (#26062955)
I think that this is a situation where the former are all server-side tools used beneath the surface to power that SaaS used by millions every day, while the latter is visible in a small handful of tools used only by the tiny fraction of the population that would visit sites like HN and even then Guile is used (statistically speaking) by no one.