Focus
Chicken's focus is immediately clear from its tagline: "A practical and portable Scheme system".
Chicken's main focus is the practical application of Scheme for writing "real-world" software. Scheme is well known for its use in computer science curricula and programming language experimentation, but it hasn't seen much use in business and industry. Chicken's community has produced a large set of libraries for performing a variety of tasks. The Chicken wiki (the software running it is also a Chicken program) also contains a list of software that people have written in Chicken.
Chicken's other goal is to be portable. By compiling to portable C (like Gambit and Bigloo), programs written in Chicken can be compiled for common popular platforms like Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like systems as well as Windows and Haiku. It also has built-in support for cross-compilation of programs and extensions, which allows it to be used on various embedded platforms.
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