What software has been written in Scheme?

Question

I loved Scheme in the programming languages concepts class I took several years ago. Ever since reading what Paul Graham has to say about Lisp, I've been intending to go back and pick Scheme up again and see if it'll improve my programming in general.

Are there any well-known works of software written in Scheme? Open source packages? Websites?

Answer 1

Also, emacs makes heavy use of its own dialect of lisp called Emacs Lisp. That is pretty related to Scheme, since Scheme itself is a dialect of Lisp.

Answer 2

There is a framework called lambdanative that is used to create cross-platform applications for ios, android, linux and windows systems. The code for the applications is written in scheme which is later translated to C using Gambit-C which then uses the SDKs of the various platforms to compile for them. Its a great use of the scheme language and could still go a long way.

So there are plenty of apps written in Scheme using this framework.