The Guile contributors are some extremely talented lispers. Missing a parenthesis in lisp docs is done by every lisper once in a while though :)
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A fresh linux install also makes me realise how few programs I use regularly. I've only installed Emacs, Firefox, a few interpreters/compilers and vlc. I keep thinking I must be missing something, but I haven't needed anything else yet.
Shims (implementations of built-in functionality missing from your current interpreter) are a mature concept in JS. I love that there are even standards now, setting expectations for how to plug them in: https://github.com/es-shims/es-shim-api
(An incomplete, best-effort shim is a "sham"!)
The "Rule Of Least Power" makes a great argument in favour of less computationally capable languages. It claims this helped HTML/CSS adoption.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
Applying this principle, I'd expect total languages to be popular. This hasn't happened AFAICT: what's missing?