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# Scheme Interpreters in JavaScript

## Some possibly good lists of Scheme interpreters in JavaScript:

1. [Scheme Web, Standardizing the Scheme web development stack, with their own SRFI](https://github.com/schemeweb)
2. [jashkenas list of Schemes that compile to JavaScript](https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS#lisp-scheme)
3. [a googling of: scheme interpreter javascript](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+interpreter+javascript)
4. [a googling of: scheme implementations](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+implementations)
5. [a googling of: scheme webassembly](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+webassembly)
6. [a googling of: javascript site:schemers.org](https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+site)
7. [a googling of: scheme "asm.js"](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+%22asm.js%22)
8. [a googling of: scheme site:repl.it](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+site)
9. [a googling of: scheme online](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+online)
10. [a googling of: scheme webassembly](https://www.google.com/search?q=scheme+webassembly)
11. [a googling of: emscripten scheme](https://www.google.com/search?q=emscripten+scheme)
12. \[the list of implementations in Wikipedia's entry for Scheme (programming language)]\(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)#Implementations>)
13. \[Wikipedia's Category:Scheme (programming language) implementations]\(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_(programming_language)_implementations>)
14. [Rosettacode.org's Category:Scheme Implementations](http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_Implementations)
15. [Scheme Web Dev](https://web.scheme.org/)
16. [Scheme section of "languages that compile to JavaScript"](https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS#lisp-scheme)

## Some interesting reads about Scheme interpreters in JavaScript:

1. [Paper on Whalesong](https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/yk-whalesong-racket-browser/paper.pdf)
2. [A performant scheme interpreter in asm.js, Noah Van Es, Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stievenart, Theo D’Hondt, Coen De Roover](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-performant-scheme-interpreter-in-asm.js-Es-Nicolay/fb309cb6b5b46923eaa25a22bdd9c01bbc4f1b27) - PDF available as a free download
3. [Implementing a performant scheme interpreter for the web in asm.js, Noah Van Es, Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stievenart, Theo D’Hondt, Coen De Roover](http://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/126226.pdf) - PDF available as a free download
4. [Implementing a performant scheme interpreter for the web in asm.js, Noah Van Es, Jens Nicolay, Quentin Stievenart, Theo D’Hondt, Coen De Roover (ACM citation)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cl.2017.02.002)
5. [Schemeweb](https://github.com/schemeweb)
6. [Schemeweb mailing list](https://srfi-email.schemers.org/schemeweb/)

## Scheme Implementations for the browser

1. Whalesong and its predecessor, Moby
2. RacketScript
3. jsScheme (not maintained)
4. Biwascheme
5. Gambit
6. LIPS (<https://lips.js.org/>)
7. Gauche
8. Chibi Scheme (tiny library to use as an extension & scripting language in C programs; works on Emscripten)
9. Schism (compiler from Scheme to WebAssembly)
10. [a Scheme-to-Rust compiler built in Rust](https://medium.com/@seanchen/a-scheme-to-webassembly-compiler-part-0-d1ff2501565a) (with step-by-step implementation details by a first-time Schemer)

(Others to be added when I have time.)

WTF?

1. [Wasm/k: Delimited Continuations for WebAssembly](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.01723)

Useful?

1. <https://github.com/swank-js/swank-js>
2. <https://socket.io/> (used by swank-js and maybe useful to us in other ways)
3. <http://www.larcenists.org/benchmarksAboutR7.html>


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