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Really good Guile Scheme crash course
(youtu.be)
She's like the mother of the fediverse, no?
And was on the ActivityPub committee before that.
And created GNU MediaGoblin before that.
If you make a bucket list of features e.g. present in Python and look whether Scheme or at least some Scheme implementations have them since a long time, you might be surprised.
Garbage cellection? Check.
Unicode-cleanness? Check.
Modular imports? Check.
Exceptions and primitives that can build generators? Check.
Pattern Matching? Check.
An interactive Read-Eval-Print-Loop? Check.
Functional if, case, and loops / list comprehendions? Check.
Lambda functions and closures? Check.
Hash tables, Maps, vectors? Check.
Complex numbers? Check.
Debuggers? Check.
Calling into C code? Check.
A numeric tower with rational numbers ? Check.
JIT compilation? Check.
and many more....
I'll just stick to C
What kind of programs do you, or would you, write in C? For most programs, writing in C would leave you, as you put it, stuck.
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