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Chibi-Scheme is a very small library with no external dependencies intended for use as an extension 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. The default language is R7RS Scheme, including first-class continuations and low-and-high-level hygienic macros.
The current release is 0.7.2, "Nitrogen":
This includes the following changes:
- R7RS now the default language
- Initial Snow2 package manager
- Faster bignum arithmetic
- Scheme Regular Expression support (SRFI 115)
- Flexible and memoizable parse combinator library
- Interning and smarter handling of file descriptors
- Many bugfixes and new tests
and many others. Most features are optional at compile time. A full-featured build produces a library around 200kb, whereas a minimal build can be under 80kb.
Chibi-Scheme is known to work on 32 and 64-bit Linux, FreeBSD and OS X, Plan9, Windows (using Cygwin) and iOS.
See the user manual for more details:
Future releases should come at a faster pace now. Near-term goals include native x86 support, batch compilation, and alternate language support.