Chicken is now working reasonably well for me. I’ve had to pull a fairly recent version directly from the source repository and build it with MinGW / MSYS but that went pretty well. I’m mildly concerned that the version I am working with is probably unique.
In the past, I have developed code using stable C++ compilers or stable versions of Perl that millions of other programmers are using. This gives me a nice secure feeling that if there are any bugs in my programs, it will be down to my code and I’ll be able to fix it myself. Using this bleeding edge chicken, I’ll probably have niggling doubts that there could be problems which are down to the compiler and/or third party libraries.
I have installed a number of chicken libraries, or eggs as they are called and they have mostly worked fine. In particular, I was surprised at how smoothly the sqlite3 install went, although I have yet to test the functionality. Overall, I’m happy with the chicken module system. I’m still having a number of problems with one useful module though – srfi-19, the date/time scheme extension. I’ll need to look into that a bit further.
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