Welcome
Welcome to the CHICKEN wiki.
This wiki was created with the purpose of providing documentation for CHICKEN. CHICKEN is an implementation of the Scheme programming language that can compile Scheme programs to C code as well as interpret them.
Check the menu at the top of this page for information about how to download CHICKEN, the User's Manual, extensions (eggs), the available API and how to report bugs and suggest improvements.
About CHICKEN
- Elevator pitch
- A brief explanation of why CHICKEN is suitable for Real World tasks
- CHICKEN for programmers of other languages
- CHICKEN for programmers of Ruby, Python and other programming languages
- Platforms & packages
- Listing of all platforms where CHICKEN is available in pre-packaged form
- Maintainers
- People who maintain CHICKEN
- Software
- Software people have written using CHICKEN
- Security policy
- Have you found a security issue? Please see how we would like to handle security problems
- Support
- Report issues and suggest improvements to CHICKEN
- FAQ
- Frequently asked questions about CHICKEN
Using CHICKEN
- Manual
- The CHICKEN User's Manual
- Eggs
- How to install and load extensions
- Eggs Unlimited
- Index of available extensions
- Tutorials
- Tutorials about all things CHICKEN!
- Supported standards
- Information about the standards implemented by CHICKEN.
- Tips and tricks & code snippets
- Some handy tips and code snippets
- Editing CHICKEN code
- Tips for editing CHICKEN code on commonly used editors
- Porting CHICKEN 4 code to CHICKEN 5
- A guide for porting code to CHICKEN 5
The CHICKEN community
- Contribute
- to make CHICKEN a better system
- Users
- A list of users and contributors to CHICKEN Scheme
- Events
- Upcoming and past events related to CHICKEN
- Maintainers
- People who maintain CHICKEN
- Discussion groups
- Mailing lists and IRC channel about CHICKEN
- The CHICKEN Gazette
- Weekly status updates about the CHICKEN project
- Art
- CHICKEN-related art (logos, desktop backgrounds etc)
- Surveys
- How people use CHICKEN and more...
Developing eggs (CHICKEN extensions)
- Eggs tutorial
- How to create eggs
Developing CHICKEN
- Internals
- Documentation about the internal structure of CHICKEN
- Development-process
- The process of how CHICKEN core is developed
- Roadmap
- Where we are heading
- Release philosophy
- How CHICKEN is released.