gauche

Deprecation date: 2027-03-31

Install command:
brew install gauche

R7RS Scheme implementation, developed to be a handy script interpreter

https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/gauche.json

Formula code: gauche.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.9.15

Revision: 1

Depends on:

ca-certificates 2026-11-05 Mozilla CA certificate store
gdbm 1.26 GNU database manager
mbedtls@3 3.6.7 Cryptographic & SSL/TLS library

Uses from macOS: libxcrypt

Binaries: gauche-cesconv, gauche-config, gauche-install, gauche-package, gosh

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days8,573
Downloads324,571
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