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Hello,

I know this question appears now and then on this group but, because the answer might change and I did not find a satisfactory answer, I repost.

I'm looking for the most popular scheme or a lisp with good libraries for the following task:

Load CSV into database and display the result on a webpage.

Ideally, I would like to be able to use scheme/lisp to write html and js also.

A plus would be to support also greenthreads with actor model. I really like LFE (Erlang) but it does not have a lot of libraries for general purpose programming.

The only ones I exclude is Clojure and Racket. Clojure because I would like to stay away from the JVM and the OOP paradigm that spills on clojure by Java libraries. I still consider it as an option because I know it is probably the most used and modern LISP for now. Racket because, although it seems to have a lot of features, I feel there is a lot of variations because of the language declaration and I feel the packages are too heterogenous. Sometimes also, the libraries are overly complicated. From my point of view...

Subquestion here : what is the most maintained scheme implementation with the most packages ? I know there is Chez, Chicken, Guile, Gambit, LIPS (js). Are they all still maintained with a good active community ?

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Thanks

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[โ€“] tkurtbond@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

CHICKEN Scheme is a very pragmatic and useful Scheme, with a lot of useful packages (which it calls eggs).