Scheme is a classic programming language in the Lisp family. It emphasizes functional programming and domain-specific languages but adapts to other styles. Known for its clean and minimalist design, Scheme is one of the longest-lived and best-studied dynamic languages, and has many fast and portable implementations.
| Try Scheme | Type Scheme code and run it in your browser |
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| FAQ | Frequently asked questions about Scheme |
| Cookbook | Code snippets that solve common problems |
| Standards | Revisedn Report on Scheme and other standards |
| SRFI | Scheme Requests for Implementation |
| Research | Dive into the academic research behind Scheme |
| Community | Scheme gathering spots around the internet |
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| Events | Scheme Workshop, conferences, and other meetups |
| Planet | Blog posts from every corner of the Scheme community |
| Video | Videos about Scheme |
| Lists | Mailing lists for email discussion of many Scheme topics |
| Wiki | Scheme community wiki |
| Education | Learn Scheme, and learn computer science using Scheme |
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| Applications | Software written or scripted in Scheme |
| Communications | Comms and networks: TCP/IP, WebSockets, peer-to-peer, radio... |
| Persistence | Databases, encoding, and logging |
| Testing | Everything having to do with testing in Scheme |
| Web development | HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other web standards |
| Implementations | Browse and compare all known Scheme systems | |
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| Bigloo | Fast Scheme-to-C and Scheme-to-JVM compiler | R5 |
| Chibi-Scheme | Small embeddable interpreter with many optional libraries | R7 |
| CHICKEN | Scheme-to-C compiler with a big, friendly community | R5 R7 |
| Cyclone | New Scheme-to-C compiler with native threads | R7 |
| Gauche | Fast script interpreter with many built-in libraries | R5 R7 |
| Kawa | JVM compiler with many extensions to Scheme | R7 |
| Loko Scheme | Bare-metal native-code compiler | R6 R7 |
| MIT/GNU Scheme | Native-code compiler and development environment | R5 R7 |
| s7 | Embeddable interpreter for music applications | R7 |
| Sagittarius | Script interpreter with many built-in libraries | R6 R7 |
| STklos | Interpreter with CLOS object-oriented GUI | R7 |
| Ypsilon | Incremental native-code compiler, mostly concurrent GC | R6 R7 |
| API | Programmable queries for all things Scheme |
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| Containers | Ready-to-run Docker containers of Scheme implementations |
| Documentation | Study and explore Scheme implementations and libraries |
| Manual pages | Unix manual pages for tools and libraries |
| Files | Scheme file archive |
| Registry | Catalog of identifiers and other data used around Scheme |
| Servers | Server pool for Scheme projects |