Hey dragonsh — you left a comment on my submission a while back about e-commerce data models and it inspired us to write a post about nosql and hybrid e-commerce data models. Here is the nosql one (<a href="https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/nosql-ecommerce-data-model" rel="nofollow">https://resources.fabric.inc/blog/nosql-ecommerce-data-model</a>). The hybrid one is coming soon. I will delete this comment soon as it is not relevant to this thread.
One thing I find fascinating is that it feels like Common Lisp, Racket and Clojure are talked about a lot, but from the top of my head I would not be able to name everyday software or tools written in any of them.<p>Meanwhile I rarely encounter discussions and talk about Guile while at the same time seeing it "everywhere" (Guix, embedded scripting in GDB, Gnucash).<p>This is just my personal feeling though.
For me, the idea of scheme is the idea of a few well-chosen primitives that compose into higher abstractions. Guile does this really well, in my opinion. You can get a decent superficial overview of the implementation in a week, and the IRC channel are really helpful with the parts that are not standard scheme.
I would be interested in a list of (used/popular?) applications that are written in Scheme.<p>I get the impression that a lot of Scheme code is in projects that never get published. I can easily name 5+ Scheme implementations that I heard of, but I don't know any prominent examples of software implemented in Scheme.