WTF is going on with R7RS Large?

Re:WTF is going on with R7RS Large? by frud on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:54PM (#37181204)

Please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm not trying to insult anyone or start a war. But this is a scheme working group, right? Is scheme really that important today to so many people? I haven't touched lisp since I stopped using EMACS about 10 years ago. I haven't heard about anything interesting involving lisp (except I've heard of clojure) since even before then.

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Re:WTF is going on with R7RS Large? by sourcepluck on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:01PM (#37182042)

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-3.6.0.org

Nyxt browser is written in Common Lisp and is going from strength to strength. Think of an attempt to provide the power of Emacs, but built on Common Lisp, and obviously with the graphics and video support browsers have.

https://packages.guix.gnu.org/

GNU Guix has 24,207 packages available and is written in Guile Scheme. The name comes from "Guile Nix", as it's based on Nix, so functional packaging, roll-backs, reproducible builds, etc. That might not be your thing, but it's definitely a very active and "successful" operating system.

https://shinmera.itch.io/kandria

And a last one just for fun, I haven't played it yet but Kandria was written entirely in Common Lisp, and looks very cool.

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Re:WTF is going on with R7RS Large? by eep_social on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:05PM (#37182094)

The backend search service for https://flights.google.com/ is implemented in Lisp.

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Re:WTF is going on with R7RS Large? by comex on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:12PM (#37184376)

Is it implemented in Scheme?

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Re:WTF is going on with R7RS Large? by eep_social on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:08PM (#37194264)

No, lisp, SBCL last I heard

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