Foment

Foment is an implementation of Scheme.

• Full R7RS.
• Libraries and programs work.
• Native threads and some synchronization primitives.
• Proccess is a subset of the Racket Processes API.
• Memory management including guardians. Guardians protect objects from being collected.
• Full Unicode including reading and writing unicode characters to the console. Files in UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding can be read and written.
• The system is built around a compiler and VM. There is support for prompts and continuation marks.
• Network support.
• Editing at the REPL including ( ) matching.
• Portable: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
• Package for OpenWRT.
• Dockerfile.
• 32 bit and 64 bit.
• SRFI 1: List Library
• SRFI 14: Character-set Library
• SRFI 18: Multithreading support
• SRFI 22: Running Scheme Scripts on Unix
• SRFI 27: Sources of Random Bits
• SRFI 39: Parameter objects
• SRFI 60: Integers as Bits
• SRFI 106: Basic socket interface
• SRFI 111: Boxes
• SRFI 112: Environment Inquiry
• SRFI 124: Ephemerons
• SRFI 125: Hash Tables
• SRFI 128: Comparators
• SRFI 133: Vector Library (R7RS-compatible)
• SRFI 151: Bitwise Operations
• SRFI 157: Continuation marks
• SRFI 166: Monadic Formatting
• SRFI 176: Version flag
• SRFI 181: Custom ports (including transcoded ports)
• SRFI 192: Port Positioning
• SRFI 193: Command line
• SRFI 207: String-notated bytevectors
• SRFI 229: Tagged Procedures

See Foment for more details.

Please note that this is very much a work in progress. Please let me know if you find bugs and omissions. I will do my best to fix them.

mikemon@gmail.com