The Digital Press

GNU Artanis is a lightweight, fast web application framework written in Scheme, designed for professional web development with modern features like async concurrency and WebSocket support.

Why it matters: It brings a robust, easy-to-use web framework to Scheme, a niche language often overlooked in web development.

The big picture: Artanis is officially part of GNU, reflecting a push to use GNU Guile for web applications, endorsed by RMS.

Stunning stat: Artanis won the "Certificated awesome project award" at the 2013 Lisp In Summer Projects contest.

Commenters say: Users appreciate Artanis’s flexibility and speed, praise its clean design, but some find the poetic website intro confusing or off-putting.