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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).

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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!
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