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Chicken Scheme is a great Scheme implementation. For a beginner, however, there is a lack of IDE e.g. a good guide how to get EMACS running for Chicken Scheme. I used Sublime Text at the beginning, but I showed performance problems when using the REPL.

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Actually, there's a really good setup for Chicken in Emacs: paredit and scheme-mode provide the basics. But the crown jewel, as it were, is geiser: it supports most of the big schemes, including chicken, very well, and it has excellent docs: http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

> e.g. a good guide how to get EMACS running for Chicken Scheme

Did you see this? http://wiki.call-cc.org/emacs

Generally, for Schemes the standard is to use Geiser mode (not that you would know that as a beginner)

Geiser+scheme-mode+paredit, and maybe scheme-complete and flycheck, are the way to go for all schemes. And geiser is great. It can just about give SLIME a run for its money, which isn't something you can say about most modes.

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