Starting in 2000, I decided to help build out Scheme to "batteries included". (Initially, portable Scheme, and then eventually I focused on what's now called Racket.) https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/
What's "batteries included" changes over time. In 2000, I needed batteries like Web scraping and crawling, various parts of a Web application server, CSV import, multimedia file handling, PostgreSQL access, embedded API docs, embedded unit tests, package tools, so I made batteries like that. (I also did some later non-open-source work of more specialized and sometimes fancier batteries.) (Racket already had portable desktop GUI.)
The batteries I need today, I'd have to roll up my sleeves and build for Scheme, since they include things like: Wasm targeting for in-browser front-ends, polished Android and iOS apps (ideally doubling as desktop GUI apps, and mobile-friendly Web apps), GPU/TPU targeting, good interfaces to cutting-edge ML libraries, various data science tools integrations. I'd be happy to build these new batteries, except grinding Leetcode and copying&pasting Stack Overflow would pay the rent much better.
What's "batteries included" changes over time. In 2000, I needed batteries like Web scraping and crawling, various parts of a Web application server, CSV import, multimedia file handling, PostgreSQL access, embedded API docs, embedded unit tests, package tools, so I made batteries like that. (I also did some later non-open-source work of more specialized and sometimes fancier batteries.) (Racket already had portable desktop GUI.)
The batteries I need today, I'd have to roll up my sleeves and build for Scheme, since they include things like: Wasm targeting for in-browser front-ends, polished Android and iOS apps (ideally doubling as desktop GUI apps, and mobile-friendly Web apps), GPU/TPU targeting, good interfaces to cutting-edge ML libraries, various data science tools integrations. I'd be happy to build these new batteries, except grinding Leetcode and copying&pasting Stack Overflow would pay the rent much better.