Practical Chicken Scheme with Emacs: hello-world webserver

Make a simple hello-world webserver using Chicken Scheme. This screencast shows how you can go about this, with many of the practicalities of using a REPL in Emacs, Chicken Scheme threads and a webserver API.

The main focus is on workflow: The interpreter is started, and you build up your program incrementally as it's running. When you're done, you save, compile and "deploy".

Content:
- REPL basics: send code surrounding the cursor to an interpreter
- Spawning and terminating srfi-18 threads interactively
- Webserver API: spiffy
- Compiling your result

Some links:

Talk to us on IRC in #chicken on Freenode!

"Errata":

- 7:30: No! They called "green threads", not "cooperating threads". Sorry about the confusion.

[sbef]

Great demo of both Scheme, Emacs and Paredit. It's certainly piqued my curiosity to dive into this world. Thanks.

[raretapes]

Would absolutely love to see some more videos like this. I've picked up so many movement tips just from this video. Thank you.

[nbme-answers]

So sad to see only 1 other video on this channel! 😭

[denisfuenzalida]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to create this video. I was curious about Chicken, now I think I'll try it myself for a small project.

[hebertmn]

Hi KLM. Really cool video. I am surprised you haven't done more! How do I get the cat software you mention for Mac?

[cellularmitosis]

Very cool to see the workflow. What screen recording software did you use which shows all of the key combos on-screen like that?

[aneslihovac]

I enjoyed this. Are you planning to make more videos/turorials? Thanks!

[lemonmango]

Hey what is that color theme you are using? Could you also share your dotfiles or emacs init file :P?

[basscass]

Do you use the geiser debug output? I dont use the standard repl very much cause of the work flow geiser brings is unmatched

[StephenThorley]

How do you get the lambda character rather than the word lambda?

[completemadlad]

check out a general comparison of python versus scheme(tiny lisp) :
/watch?v=f-qtqWUKspA​