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.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 ??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 !In the end chicken-scheme was surprisingly easy and complete solution for a hit-the-ground-running scheme.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.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 :)