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Chibi-Scheme vs GNU Guile: catalog facts
Chibi-SchemeGNU Guile
Free

Free and open source under the BSD 3-clause licence.

Free

Free software under the LGPL 3.0 or later.

Command line macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Small footprint suited to embedding in C programs
  • Usable as a standalone Scheme interpreter
  • Works both as a standalone language and an embeddable extension language
  • Broad Scheme standards support, including many SRFIs
  • Smaller ecosystem than larger Scheme or Lisp implementations
  • Documentation is mostly in the repository
  • Scheme syntax is unfamiliar to many programmers
  • Smaller ecosystem than mainstream scripting languages
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause License: LGPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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