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WOW this just makes it one of the best implementation of scheme, though i would love to see the chez backend version to produce executable binaries like chicken scheme or current raco compiler does. The current chez scheme supports only fasl binaries which require a scheme interpreter to be distributed. The only hacky way currently is chez-exe.

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As I understand it, raco (if it's the same as the old mzscheme) creates executables by combining bytecode with a complete interpreter and runtime. Chicken, via C, can probably leverage existing compiler support for creating minimal static binaries.

I've long been a fan of Dybvig and Chez Scheme and it would be a lot of fun to try running Hacker News on RoC with no effort on our part.

Gerbil/Gambit do this already. Fully static binaries, and are a ton faster than Chicken.

Are there any scheme implementations that dump executables the way e.g. cmucl or clozureCL do? That is they dump the entire core to disk and prepend the runtime. This is actually the more traditional way of creating an executable (all of the static compiling ones I'm aware of derive from a single implemenation, KCL)

Scheme 48: http://www.s48.org/1.9.2/manual/manual-Z-H-4.html#node_sec_3...

Note that raco doesn't make static binaries unfortunately (b/c Racket is LGPL.. which is a bit unusual for programming language)

The license will soon(ish) change:

https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570

The license doesn't have anything to do with the behavior of `raco`.

I'd love to be wrong on this, but from what I understand Chicken Scheme can no longer produce static binaries.

IIRC it can, but whenever you use eggs (chicken libraries) there might be some limitations to whether you can create a fat executable or have to distribute the runtime and the eggs together with your application.

There is more info here: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Deployment

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