[GNC] Best IDE for Scheme Twiddling

Christopher Lam christopher.lck at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 08:08:41 EST 2025


On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 at 04:58, Paul Kroitor <paul at kroitor.ca> wrote:

> Some time ago I started playing with some of the Scheme reports to meet
> some of my specific needs. Although the improvements I made worked well
> and were fairly generalized, I never created any pull requests because I
> find the whole git environment / release pipeline a bit daunting. Then
> life intervened, and my available time dried up.
>
> Now I again have time to play, and I thought I might address a couple of
> the outstanding annoyances. Does anyone have a favourite IDE to suggest
> for the Scheme components? The web seems to imply that DrRacket is good
> for this kind of thing, but it's fairly focused on educational
> scenarios, and I'd rather something with just a fairly basic editor plus
> debugging capability. Syntax highlighting is always nice too though.
>

There's only 1 viable editor and that's emacs... It won't debug for you
though.
Feel free to ask in irc/bugzilla/etc.


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