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Gerbil scheme is a variant of Scheme implemented on Gambit-C. It supports current R*RS standards and common SRFIs and has a state of the art macro and module system inspired by Racket.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambit_(Scheme_implementation)

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If one is acquainted to Scheme, it's better skimming through the introduction for an overview of all the language features.

https://cons.io/guide/intro.html

Seeing it has objects, methods structs, optional type annotation, couroutines, actor model, I tried to build it but the Gambit Scheme on my system was too old and I gave up.

Also an older but still useful overview of all the Schemes when used for scientific computing:

http://fmnt.info/blog/20181029_scheme.html

> Seeing it has objects, methods structs, optional type annotation, couroutines, actor model, I tried to build it but the Gambit Scheme on my system was too old and I gave up.

Compiling a newer Gambit from source is really straightforward. I ran compiles of Gambit over and over to stress-test Raspberry Pis to see if they needed active cooling (they did).

Gerbil compiles its own pegged version of Gambit. No need to build it yourself.

I tried it two years ago when the github cloned version required a specific version of Gambit that I did not have. If the current distribution comes pegged with its own version of Gambit like Racket does with Chez, that's geat.

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