It is meant to be used as an embedded scripting interpreter for other programs.

Much of the functionality in TinyScheme is included conditionally, to allow developers to balance features and size/footprint.

TinyScheme is used by the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) starting with version 2.4, released in 2007.

[2] TinyScheme was used as the core of Direct Revenue's adware, making it the world's most widely distributed Scheme runtime.

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