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@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for
lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap
allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously in different OS threads.
There are no external dependencies so is relatively easy to drop into
any project.
The default repl language contains all bindings from
[R7RS small](http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/R7RSHomePage),
available explicitly as the `(scheme small)` library.
Support for additional languages such as JavaScript, Go, Lua and Bash
are planned for future releases. Scheme is chosen as a substrate
because its first class continuations and guaranteed tail-call
optimization makes implementing other languages easy.
available explicitly as the `(scheme small)` library. The
language is built in layers, however - see the manual for
instructions on compiling with fewer features or requesting
a smaller language on startup.
Chibi-Scheme is known to work on **32** and **64-bit** Linux,
FreeBSD and OS X, Plan9, Windows (using Cygwin), iOS, and
[Emscripten](https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site).
FreeBSD and OS X, Plan9, Windows (using Cygwin), iOS, Android,
Arm and [Emscripten](https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site).
To build on most platforms just run `make && make test`. This will
provide a shared library *libchibi-scheme*, as well as a sample