IronScheme VS chibi-scheme

Compare IronScheme vs chibi-scheme and see what are their differences.

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IronScheme chibi-scheme
7 7
362 1,169
0.3% -
6.4 7.3
2 days ago about 1 month ago
Scheme Scheme
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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IronScheme

Posts with mentions or reviews of IronScheme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-24.

chibi-scheme

Posts with mentions or reviews of chibi-scheme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.
  • Debugging Compilers in Clojure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
    Your core point is absolutely true about how Lisp is special in that it usually provides a read procedure to turn a textual type into a native object that can be evaluated (this is a side effect of homoiconicity, so any homoiconic language will have this property too), but I have one additional nitpick to make ontop of yours:

    > [...] eval can take any lisp object and evaluate it.

    eval cannot be generalized to accepting any Lisp object, only specifically symbolic expressions (symbols, or lists (potentially nested) of symbols). I discovered this because I thought Chibi Scheme was throwing a warning for valid code[0] to inject a value into an expression for eval, but Marc helped me understand that the warning was correct, because Scheme only specifies what eval does for symbolic values.

    [0] https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme/issues/902

  • Chibi-Scheme: a small library intended for in C programs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2022
  • I don't want to go to Chel-C
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2022
    I think a VM for a small, but highly abstract, language like Scheme might address the objections of the author(s) of this article. You might like Chibi-Scheme: https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme

    Having said that, IMO, if you're having fun with uxn and its retro 8-bit aesthetic, by all means keep going with that.

  • Chibi Scheme – Minimal Scheme Implementation for Use as an Extension Language
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022
  • Alternative to ECL?
    5 projects | /r/lisp | 27 Apr 2021
    I would also add [chibi scheme](https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme) to the C-embedded alternatives.
  • Scheme for embedding in .NET application
    4 projects | /r/scheme | 3 Mar 2021
    This one? https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme I notice it's intended to be embedded in C, so it's not a perfect match.
  • What is the definition of rational? in Scheme?
    1 project | /r/scheme | 24 Feb 2021
    Chibi-Scheme's definition is interesting:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing IronScheme and chibi-scheme you can also consider the following projects:

ClojureCLR - A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project

c2ffi - Clang-based FFI wrapper generator

F# - Please file issues or pull requests here: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp

mal - mal - Make a Lisp

FunScript - F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider

cl-autowrap - (c-include "file.h") => complete FFI wrapper

LinqOptimizer - An automatic query optimizer-compiler for Sequential and Parallel LINQ.

accesskit - UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages

Bridge.NET - :spades: C# to JavaScript compiler. Write modern mobile and web apps in C#. Run anywhere with Bridge.NET.

schemy - A lightweight embeddable Scheme-like interpreter for configuration

Fable - The project has moved to a separate organization. This project provides redirect for old Fable web site.

c-mera - Next-level syntax for C-like languages :)