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<ity>I want to learn schemes, but I don't know where to start. Has anyone used them to write games?
<ekaitz>ity: yeah we have a person here that wrote a small game engine in guile
<ekaitz>ity: https://dthompson.us/projects/chickadee.html
<ity>How fast is it?
<ity>I mean efficiency.
<identity>ity: it is fast
<ekaitz>ity: Guile is substantially faster than python
<ekaitz>but it still suffers from the same issues when it comes to game development
<ekaitz>which, broadly speaking are fine for certain kind of games, almost all of them really
<ekaitz>I'm talking about garbage collection, for example
<lloda>i wonder if it would make sense in scheme to have scoped allocation