| Mobile Code

Scheme48

Evaluation with respect to Distributed Hypermedia Applications Development Issues:

Runtime Safety

Yes, with runtime typechecks

System Safety

scheme48's module system would allow for system safety ala Obliq or Safe-Tcl, but there's a lot of work to be done. I think the folks at NEC are working on it.

Thread-aware I/O

Yes.

Cross-Platform GUI API

No.

Module System

Yes. Very original.

Exceptions

Yes, scheme errors and conditions.

FFI

marshal/unmarshal heap objects to C.

TCP/IP API

Yes.

Flatten/Serialize/Pickle

Hmmm...?

Mobile Closures

NEC folks are working on it, I think.

Licensing and other Intellectual Property Rights Issues

MIT/X style copyright.