Most readable Scheme implementation

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  • mal

    mal - Make a Lisp

  • Lisp (not Scheme), but you might be interested in mal, which has implementations in all of these languages: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/tree/master/impls

  • ribbit

    A small and portable Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K. It supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations and a REPL.

  • A small and portable Scheme implementation that supports closures, tail calls, first-class continuations, a REPL and AOT and incremental compilers. All that for a run time footprint around 4 KB! https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit

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  • STklos

    STklos Scheme

  • That said, I'd just like to mention that I have made an effort to write internals documentation ( general: "hacking", bytecode: "vm") to STklos. It's an interesting implementation because it's easy to add primitives and change the compiler. The internals of the VM is actually a bit more complex... But it's really interesting code.

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