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Re: Racket v7.5

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Post by velcrovan » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

bsaul wrote: post #7

Question : is racket still useful if you plan on building a DSL not based on lisp syntax ?

Here's an example of building a BASIC interpreter in Racket: https://beautifulracket.com/basic/intro.html

Re: Racket v7.5

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Post by igouy » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 6:34 PM UTC

soegaard wrote: post #19

igouy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Note that several of these benchmarks use 4 cores on Python but only one on Racket. Time to revisit the Racket programs and use places. Look at the single core benchmarks to get a more 1-1 comparison.

> Time to revisit the Racket programs and use places.

Please contribute improved programs:

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

Re: Racket v7.5

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Post by mrobot » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

I like DrRacket's debugger but i can only run it once on a large program! Even if i increase the memory i can only run it once. The second run results in strange behavior. Does anyone else have problems with DrRacket?

Re: Racket v7.5

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Post by hinkelman » Sat, Nov 23, 2019, 4:49 AM UTC

peatmoss wrote: post #18

Any news on the status of “Racket 2” planning? That announcement demotivated me to want to invest in Racket. Is racket-without-sexprs still the plan for mainline mindshare?

The project is now called Rhombus, not Racket2. A project plan was posted on the Racket mailing list about 6 weeks ago: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/racket-users/rhom...

Re: Racket v7.5

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Post by seisvelas » Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 6:48 AM UTC

bsaul wrote: post #7

Question : is racket still useful if you plan on building a DSL not based on lisp syntax ?

I'm currently creating a SQL dialect with Racket. It's great!