Current version is 4.3g , released February 2020

modification of the object system (language design and implementation),

new APIs (alsa, flac, mpg123, avahi, csv parsing),

new library functions (UDP support),

new regular expressions support,

new garbage collector (Boehm's collection 7.3alpha1).

Bigloo is a Scheme implementation devoted to one goal: enabling Scheme based programming style where C(++) is usually required. Bigloo attempts to make Scheme practical by offering features usually presented by traditional programming languages but not offered by Scheme and functional programming. Bigloo compiles Scheme modules. It delivers small and fast stand alone binary executables. Bigloo enables full connections between Scheme and C programs, between Scheme and Java programs, and between Scheme and C# programs.The highlights of this release are (see the ChangeLog for a detailed list of novelties of this release):You may also find simple examples illustrating original Bigloo features here

The Bigloo C code generator delivers fast binaries executables for the Unix operating system. The Bigloo JVM code generator delivers highly portable JVM class files (or jar files) that can be run on any JVM runtime environment (Sun's JDK, Netscape Applets, etc.). We have measured that in general, Scheme modules when compiled to JVM are in between 2 and 4 times slower than their C counterpart.