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> Having the system in Clojure offers a number of advantages. It is not necessary to obtain or prepare a MIT/GNU Scheme executable to execute: only a Java runtime is required.

I still wonder if that is the easiest way to go about it. Isn't it possible to compile Scheme to WASM, for example?

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It's a weird argument to me that somehow obtaining a Java runtime environment is easier than getting a binary for a Scheme interpreter. I think most people who aren't already Java users would find the latter easier, not the former.

That note in the docs is from a time when Emmy only ran on the JVM. Now Emmy runs in JS in a browser (see my top level comment for demo links) which I would argue is even easier.

Also the MIT scheme install was historically quite hairy and not supported on M1 Macs, for example.

I’ll update the docs here. Thanks!

Not MIT scheme, and there are no proper ports of scmutils to other Scheme dialects that I know of.

Interesting, looks like Ben Greenman started work on a port to Racket, but it does appear that that work is still firmly WIP: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics

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