Chicken Scheme 6.0 has been released, bringing several significant improvements including full R7RS small language module support, UTF-8 string encoding, and a bytevector overhaul replacing blobs. Process handling now returns process objects instead of raw PIDs, with improved file-locking via flock(2) for thread safety.
Background
Chicken Scheme is a well-known Scheme compiler/interpreter that implements the R5RS and R7RS standards. Version 6.0 represents a major milestone with comprehensive R7RS compliance and modernization.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 11, 2026 at 08:24 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10