Clojure from a Schemer's perspective (2021)
Recently I tried to jump into scheme (I'm okish in clojure) man what a mission to install scheme on linux.<p>I first tried todo gerbil scheme, then Ubuntu seems to have the wrong version of gambit (gerbil-scheme runs optop of gambit-scheme for those that don't know).
That took a few hours of compiling, reading, trying diff versions always ended in some deadlock-issue ??<p>Then I tried Guile,was a little better and easier, but soon got stumped when I wanted to access mysql-db yes there are packages but those packages I couldn't install for the life of me !<p>In the end chicken-scheme was surprisingly easy and complete solution for a hit-the-ground-running scheme.<p>Now I'm prob a noob as it comes to scheme, but not to fiddle and massage packages and programs on linux. Trying to learn scheme but spending a few hours just to get it installed was what killed it for me.<p>Clojure is certainly not perfect, but you could get up and running much faster in my opinion. Oh and it uses square brackets for parameters :)