I am willing to learn Scheme. I want to stick to R7RS since it's the last standard. However, it seems that there is a lot of fragmentation on the Scheme current implementations, and most of them staying at R5RS or part of R6RS.
The only one I have found supports part of R7RS is Kawa, but as it runs on JVM, it doesn't support tail call optimization, and that is a strong point against that implementation.
Is the Scheme world really that fragmented that there is not even an R7RS full implementation yet? I am asking, because if there is not, as soon as I catch up, I am planning on building one; but, if there exists one, it would be better not to reinvent the wheel and contribute to that certain implementation.
Please, if you have information, I would appreciate not only answering with names, but also with proper further information (official website of the implementation or even a extract from a mailing group would be useful as a reference).
And by the way, I am not considering Racket, as it's not really Scheme anymore.
The Chairman of R7RS Small Language ("Working Group 1") committee, Alex Shinn, created Chibi Scheme as the standard evolved. I believe it is fully compliant. It is a bytecode compiler.
Larceny has a mostly (totally?) compliant R7RS mode, and compiles to machine code.
I have been playing with Picrin which aims for R7RS compliance, and is very very close. It is a bytecode compiler.
A list of implementations that are aiming for R7RS compliance at the committee's wiki include:
Although the question explicitly excludes Racket from consideration as not being Scheme I will point to Racket package "R7RS" which implements R7Rs small.
There are some small incompatibilities documented on project's page.
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