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Racket v6.6

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Post by rayalez »

John Carmack once said that he is developing VRScript based on racket. Does anyone know if there's any news regarding it's development?

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Post by daveguy »

Just wanted to point out the Racket quick start tutorial. It is a well written easy to understand introduction/expansion on hello world for a functional language:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/

Highly recommended even if you aren't looking to pick up a new language or delve into functional programming.

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Post by hellofunk »

I see that static typing is become a high priority development goal now, even in traditionally dynamic lisps. I see this as a positive for sure.

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Post by jhck »

hellofunk wrote: post #4

I see that static typing is become a high priority development goal now, even in traditionally dynamic lisps. I see this as a positive for sure.

Matthias Felleisen, one of the developers of Racket, recently gave a talk about the motivation behind typed Racket; it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio

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Post by dschiptsov »

It seems that Racket became for Schemes what Common Lisp was for Lisps, which is really good.

Racket is famous for carefully chosen design decisions and nerdy attention to details, so in this sense it is much better than Common Lisp which was a dump.)

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Post by metaobject »

jhck wrote: post #6
hellofunk wrote: post #4

I see that static typing is become a high priority development goal now, even in traditionally dynamic lisps. I see this as a positive for sure.

Matthias Felleisen, one of the developers of Racket, recently gave a talk about the motivation behind typed Racket; it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio

I wonder if you could do something like prototype in dynamic (original, if you will) racket and then release in typed racket for performance/safety reasons.

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Post by Profan »

metaobject wrote: post #8
jhck wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matthias Felleisen, one of the developers of Racket, recently gave a talk about the motivation behind typed Racket; it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTl7Jn_kmio

I wonder if you could do something like prototype in dynamic (original, if you will) racket and then release in typed racket for performance/safety reasons.

I think that was one of the purposes of Rackets typesystem, to fit idiomatic Racket code well enough that you wouldn't have to rewrite most of it to introduce static typing to a Racket program.

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Post by richard_todd »

dschiptsov wrote: post #7

It seems that Racket became for Schemes what Common Lisp was for Lisps, which is really good. Racket is famous for carefully chosen design decisions and nerdy attention to details, so in this sense it is much better than Common Lisp which was a dump.)

I'm not really sure what you mean, but I don't see it. Racket did not develop a new standard that pulled together common practices across existing Scheme implementations, and other implementations did not adapt racket compatibility features, nor did additional racket implementations pop up. Racket does not appear to have supplanted use of other scheme implementations either. So, I'm looking for the analogy, but I'm not finding it. In fact, racket claims to have changed their name to "racket" in the first place because they were so far from Scheme that it was confusing to everyone (http://www.racket-lang.org/new-name.html). I wouldn't say that about Common Lisp vs predecessor lisps.
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