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The compiler. That’s the gem of the system.

The generated C is reasonably portable, so you can run Scheme programs on systems that “don’t run Scheme”.

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Absolutely. And eggs too [1]: these are libraries provided by the community, very easy to import and use.

[1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs

What happens if you try to run Python eggs under Chicken? Do you get Roko's Basilisk? :-)

Pythons are too cold to hatch Chicken eggs, and viceversa

Just to run with the joke - one project I worked on was a CPython extension. We used Chicken to build out our library to do some rather hacky things and bring async/await to Python before it supported it.

And we did call it basilisk.

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