Racket’s Chez merged into Cisco’s Chez

🖐🏽

A very well come merge of Racket’s Chez into Cisco brings many interesting features. It already available with the following command line dance:

git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/cisco/chezscheme
     cd chezscheme
     ./configure --installprefix=$HOME/.local/
     make -j $(nproc --ignore=1)
     make install

I am very interested in the following new features:

• Hardware support includes AArch64 for Linux, Mac OS, and iOS, and RISC-V;
• Unboxed floating points operations;
• The new operator thread-join;
• Safe procedure fasl-read;

For full release notes look at:

• https://users.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/tmp/release_notes_v999.html

Or the up-to-date:

• https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/main/release_notes/release_notes.stex