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Not in the way I would like: you cannot have a REPL running. Seems only a transpiler for R7 Small.

It's compiling a subset of Scheme that can be statically typed. It's not for full-blown live-hackable Scheme programs. You'd use Crunch or PreScheme to implement things that you can't implement in Scheme, like a garbage collector. I don't know if Crunch has this feature, but with PreScheme you can run your PreScheme programs at the Scheme REPL so you can have your comfy REPL-driven dev environment and then create a static executable when you're ready.

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