Chicken Scheme 6.0

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• Native UTF-8 strings are the part I care about most here. The old blob-versus-string juggling was the first thing that bit me porting code.
  by sabot90260
• Why do people use chicken over gambit? Is it due to chicken’s larger ego system and eggs, or is there more?
  by Decabytes
• Happy to see CHICKEN 6.0 out. Moving to full R7RS and UTF-8 strings was long overdue. The change from blobs to bytevectors and the process-object API look particularly clean. Anyone who has already started porting code — any major gotchas so far?
  by Myzura
• For those who use Chicken Scheme: what made you pick it over other Lisps? What are some things it does particularly well?
  by rmunn
• I was eagerly waiting for this release, which brings full Unicode support.

  Congratulations to the team, Chicken Scheme is a little gem!

  by ziotom78
• I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really enjoyed it. So far I've mostly played with web stuff. Built a wrapper around makemkvcon for ripping some dvds I've been meaning to rip that'll do a little bit of automatic naming of output using the tv db.

  I was slightly worried that I'd start using v5 and then v6 would come out but it looked like they'd been working on it for a while so I figured I'd have some time on v5. Turns out I was wrong!

  by trescenzi
• For an introduction:

  CHICKEN is a compiler that translates Scheme source files into C, which in turn can be fed to a C compiler to generate a standalone executable. An interpreter is also available and can be used as a scripting environment or for testing programs before compilation.

  by orsenthil
• Folks may also be interested that this version, 6.0, supports Crunch(although Crunch itself has not been declared a 1.0 status, currently @ .993), which is a compiler for a statically typed subset of Scheme R7RS. (https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/6/crunch)
  by DASD