@fiskfan1999
My first contact with Scheme was through Guile, whose documentation is superb, especially if you're used to GNU Info. It's also great if you want to do some low-level hacking in C.

If you're an Emacs user, choose an implementation that is supported by the Geiser package - you can find the list here:

https://github.com/emacsmirror/geiser

I've also used Chicken, Gambit, Racket, MIT/GNU Scheme, and Kawa, and tried Chez and Stalin.

Racket seems the most approachable in general, as it has a fairly familiar IDE and books like "How to Design Programs" or "How to Design Worlds" or "Realm of Racket". Chicken is nice - small, portable and easy to build even on constrained environments.

Gambit is less approachable, but it has very good performance.

I found Chez hard to build initially, but I think now you should be able to install it through most package managers. It's a labor of love and fortune - but not of a community (I think that's where Guile and Racket stand out).

Stalin has the worst user experience imaginable - but it allegedly produces super-fast binaries (if they don't break).

I mostly use Kawa these days, but that's because of the constraints of my project. There's a lot of great ideas in Kawa, but I can't say it's the most reliable implementation out there - its original creator is a bit reluctant to maintain it, as he does other things these days, and there seems to be no one else who'd be willing to take over the burden of maintenance. (That being said, I really love Kawa.)

You may also find these benchmarks useful:

http://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/

If you'd like to use Scheme as a replacement for go, then it seems that performance-wise Chez might be the best option (also, I think that people would love you if you made some decent benchmarks comparing Scheme with golang, and wrote some blog posts that would compare them)

@fiskfan1999
I use #guile
I could recommend #racket

#scheme #mitscheme #golang #go #gnuscheme #askfedi