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Re:Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp by thrown_22 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:01AM (#33055547)
Guile is the Python of Schemes. It is not meant to be performant, it is meant to be the glue that holds everything together in the GNU operating system.

That Python is the most popular language today should tell you how successful Guile has been at this goal.

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Re:Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp by tmtvl on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:28AM (#33055701)
I thought Gauche was the Python of Schemes: not super fast, but with a lot* of included batteries.

* See https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/man/gauche-refe/Library-... for an overview.

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