Racket 5.2 Released
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Racket 5.2 Released
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Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#2Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. That list of features is awesome. This, just a few months since they redid all of Racket's graphics library. Well done!
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#3From the release notes I see a new 'db' lib has been added which'll work out-of-the-box with PGSQL, MySQL, SQLite and ODBC. No more fetching different PlaneT packages for different databases, plus it has the added benefit of being in the core. Great work by the Racket Team :) lots of batteries included!
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#4The new plot library is brilliant! Thanks to all involved.
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#5Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. That list of features is awesome. This, just a few months since they redid all of Racket's graphics library. Well done!
Oh I don't know, it's not completely obscure. Tools like DrRacket need a community to exist, they don't come from nowhere. It's used at a reasonable number of schools, and even has a book about interpreters written with it (by Shriram Krishnamurthi).
Now if you're asking why it hasn't replaces Scheme, I personally think it's (1) because Racket is yet-another-lisp-derivative, (2) because adding objects to lisp is like a rite of passage for lisp programmers, which trivializes many (cool) features in racket, and (3) because it's hard to convince old-school lispers of anything, let alone that their dialect is wrong, or needs improvement.
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#6Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. That list of features is awesome. This, just a few months since they redid all of Racket's graphics library. Well done!
> Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use.
I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it wasn't obvious at first. On my laptop also running Ubuntu, DrRacket is usable but strangely (enter! ...) raises an error. This gives the impression that the whole environment is not well polished. I think it would be useful to have an easy-to-find straightforward tutorial on how to use Racket with any editor and the text-based REPL, as many people are probably not keen on using DrRacket.
This is not a criticism or even an opinion but merely a feeling I'm expressing here, I'm sure I could (and will) address all these issues with more RTFM.
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#7Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. That list of features is awesome. This, just a few months since they redid all of Racket's graphics library. Well done!
> Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it was…
Just a quick note: enter! doesn't really make sense in DrRacket. When you evaluate your code in DrRacket it does the equivalent of an enter! for you. If you want help drop into #racket. I'll be there in a couple of hours.
Update: You might also want to read this page on using Racket with text editors: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/other-editors.html
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it was…
Just a quick note: enter! doesn't really make sense in DrRacket. When you evaluate your code in DrRacket it does the equivalent of an enter! for you. If you want help drop into #racket. I'll be there in a couple of hours. Update: You might also want to read this page on using Racket with text editors: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/other-editors.html
Thank you for the helpful reply. I might show up on IRC sometime or ask my questions on the users mailing list.
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#9Would How to Design Programs (http://www.htdp.org/) and Racket be a good combination to recommend for someone who is starting programming? Racket even has special language settings for different levels of HTDP that are the subsets of the scheme language that are used in each phase of the book.
And Racket is batteries included. It's got plenty of libs out of the box with lots of bells and whistles to make things that go bing. There's also GUI REPL tool called Dr. Racket.
I just checked racket out from Git, and it was easy to build and install (on an out-of-date Ubuntu) and they had binaries available too.
Re: Racket 5.2 Released
#10Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. That list of features is awesome. This, just a few months since they redid all of Racket's graphics library. Well done!
> Racket is just awesome. I don't know why it doesn't see more use. I use Racket to study SICP so I haven't looked into the Racket language at all, but I can give you my impressions about the programming environment. On my netbook running Ubuntu, DrRacket is extremely slow and short keys don't work. I've found how to use the racket interpreter using (enter! "myfile.scm") and how to enable readline support, but it was…
DrRacket may be sluggish sometimes, but I bet it's hell lot faster than Eclipse ;)
More seriously: is your netbook/laptop uses Gnome 3, Racket 5.2 fixes some issues with it which were present in 5.1.x.