STk
STk is the ancestor of STklos (https://stklos.net) This repository contains fixes to allow the compilation of 4.0.1 on modern versions of GCC (by egallesio)
Kawa
By kashell
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
STk
Posts with mentions or reviews of STk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-03.
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Oldest Scheme Implementations
STklos was indeed born in 2001, but it was the successor of Stk, which is much older. Its first release was in 1993. As far as I know, STkos did use code from STk, so I'm not sure one couldn't say it was born in 1993, as "STk".
Kawa
Posts with mentions or reviews of Kawa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.
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Emacs-like editors written in Common Lisp
Kawa (like Clojure) runs on the JavaVM, but has a longer pedigree (from 1996), good compatibility with standard Scehemes (including R7RS), and has a stronger emphasis on performance: It has optional types and semi-decent type inferance so it is easy to write code as performant as Java. It also has fast startup, and is unopinonated on how you run and bundle applications: it generates pretty vanilla class files that interoperate with Java easily. See https://www.gnu.org/software/org and https://gitlab.com/kashell/Kawa
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Oldest Scheme Implementations
Kawa is quite relevant, and it seems that the project started in 1996. Still actively maintained.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing STk and Kawa you can also consider the following projects:
cyclone - :cyclone: A brand-new compiler that allows practical application development using R7RS Scheme. We provide modern features and a stable system capable of generating fast native binaries.
drracket - DrRacket, IDE for Racket
STklos - STklos Scheme
sagittarius-scheme - A manual (beh...) clone from bitbucket to use hosted CI service which only support GitHub
kitgen - Tclkit build system
ypsilon - R7RS/R6RS Scheme Implementation