Why I'm Writing a Scheme Implementation in 2025 (The Answer Is Async Rust)

1. expander

   1 3 69 0.0

   

   The talk goes line by line through this code [1]; I've been transcribing and taking notes on this for the last week, for a somewhat similar project actually.

   If you're interested, I've got a huge pile of papers and links collected here [2] that you might enjoy. I've read everything, but right now it's still a big ol' mush; there's a _ton_ of prior art!

   Enjoy, good hacking!

   [1]: https://github.com/mflatt/expander/tree/pico

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3. gigi

   2 1 3 7.9 C

   

4. helix

   3 444 37,048 9.9 Rust

   A post-modern modal text editor.

   

   The Helix editor, a popular alternative to Vim, is going to implementing it's plugin system in a Scheme-like language. Helix is also written in Rust.

   https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

5. steel

   4 15 1,658 9.1 Rust

   An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust

   

   Also a shout out to Steel (https://github.com/mattwparas/steel), another Scheme-on-Rust which is more active.

   The Rust community has given us at least two Scheme runtimes, several JS runtimes, but no Clojure interpreter yet that I'm aware of. There are a few zombie projects squatting on the name (seems common in Rust) but no viable releases.

6. tokio

   5 219 28,380 9.5 Rust

   A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

   

7. jank

   6 39 2,493 9.8 C++

   The native Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with seamless C++ interop.

   

   I expect that jank will be migrating from C++ to Rust, at some point. https://github.com/jank-lang/jank

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