MIT Scheme AlternativesProgramming Languages and other similar apps like MIT Scheme

MIT Scheme is described as 'Implementation of Scheme providing an interpreter, compiler, source-code debugger, integrated Emacs-like editor, and a large run-time library' and is a programming language in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MIT Scheme for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best MIT Scheme alternative is Hy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MIT Scheme are Chibi Scheme, Steel Bank Common Lisp, CMU Common Lisp and Armed Bear Common Lisp.

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  1. Hy icon
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    Hy is a wonderful dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python.

    Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into the Python Abstract Syntax Tree, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Hy is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MIT Scheme.

    • Hy is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MIT Scheme.

    • Hy is Free and Open SourceMIT Scheme is also Free and Open Source
  2. Chibi Scheme icon
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    Chibi-Scheme is a very small library with no external dependencies intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs. In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
  3. Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a high performance Common Lisp compiler. It is open source / free software, with a permissive license. In addition to the compiler and runtime system for ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment including a debugger, a statistical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function interface; an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) is a full implementation of the Common Lisp language featuring both an interpreter and a compiler, running in the JVM. Originally started to be a scripting language for the J editor, it now supports JSR-223 (Java scripting API): it can be a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. CLISP icon
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    CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. ManKai Common Lisp (MKCL) aims to be a full implementation of the Common Lisp language in compliance with the ANSI X3J13 Common Lisp standard. It is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) with a few minor exceptions (see the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. femtolisp icon
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    femtolisp is a simple, elegant Scheme dialect. It is a lisp-1 with lexical scope. The core is 12 builtin special forms and 33 builtin functions. It is fast, ranking among the fastest non-native-compiled Scheme implementations.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
    • femtolisp is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MIT Scheme.

    • femtolisp is Free and Open SourceMIT Scheme is also Free and Open Source
  9. Clozure CL (often called CCL for short) is a free Common Lisp implementation with a long history. Some distinguishing features of the implementation include fast compilation speed, native threads, a precise, generational, compacting garbage collector, and a convenient...

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  10. Modern and powerful lisp language written in JavaScript with literal regexes, that hide use of promises, full access to JavaScript, lisp macro system and hygienic macros.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • LIPS Scheme is the most popular Web-based alternative to MIT Scheme.

    • LIPS Scheme is Free and Open SourceMIT Scheme is also Free and Open Source
  11. LispWorks icon
     Like

    LispWorks is a commercial implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. GCL is the official Common Lisp for the GNU project. Its design makes use of the system's C compiler to compile to native object code, providing for both good performance and facile portability. GCL currently compiles itself and the primary free software Lisp applications...

    13 GNU Common Lisp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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