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While the language is interesting, sadly, nobody is using it in the wild. Maybe due to cumbersome deployment options? The ability to produce native standalone executables would boost its usage I believe.
any time the topic of racket comes up, i wonder if there are any interesting apps i could explore. but all i find is libraries and dev tools: https://awesome-racket.com/
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You can't run that code within the language so no, obviously not. And even if you could, strings + eval alone is not homoiconicity--programs are not manipulated by the compiler as unstructured text strings.
I quite intentionally said "within the language" to preempt nonsense like "Of course, you can. C is perfectly capable of writing C interpreters and compilers."
Is the standard library part of the language? Would a variant of C that came with an interpreter in the standard library (but no other changes) count as homoiconic?
I've never seen the appeal in schemes other than hot reloadability...
Lisp/Scheme/Racket is a very simple language that is also very fluid and malleable. You can express ideas and computations very precisely, concisely, and intuitively. There really aren't any barriers as they (Scheme/Racket at least) are rooted in the Lambda Calculus which is a theoretical model equivalent to the Turing Machine. Any language feature you'd like can be expressed: Want standard infix math expressions or…
I feel like the good parts of lisps have been adopted by typed languages...
Hiii, I'm Geometridae (Astrid Motilla)! A friend from the Racket community mentioned that my article appeared here. Thank you for reading it, and I'll make sure to take all this feedback and these different perspectives into account for this and future articles! :) I’d also encourage you to give it a try and have some fun with it! I’m using it for some of the 3D demos in my book. It’s definitely not a silver bullet,…
Misses out on LispWorks and Allegro Common Lisp for the Common Lisp entry, which contrary to SBCL provide a similar graphics experience as the Lisp machines of yore, here missing out on TI and Xerox as well, Genera wasn't alone.
Nothing against Lisp, but to correct the record: > For decades, Lisp was the language of artificial intelligence. [...] Then came the "AI winter," funding dried up, and Lisp went from star to cult language. Lisp had fallen from relevance before then. Only the United States was still using it, and mostly out of technical debt and a stubborn refusal to move on. Prolog displaced it in the late 1970s, and even within the…
I've read a large factor was minicomputers and microcomputers running Unix in C became much more affordable, and when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 DoD funding for powerful and expensive Lisp workstations quickly dried up. And the nascent free software Lisp offerings left a lot to be desired (to be developed). This visualization of relative programming language popularity shows Lisp was the 3rd most popular general pu…
The ranking then was due to Turbo Pascal which came out in November 1983. It was probaly the first IDE and compiler on PCs
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Lisp/Scheme/Racket is a very simple language that is also very fluid and malleable. You can express ideas and computations very precisely, concisely, and intuitively. There really aren't any barriers as they (Scheme/Racket at least) are rooted in the Lambda Calculus which is a theoretical model equivalent to the Turing Machine. Any language feature you'd like can be expressed: Want standard infix math expressions or…
But I can use custom DSLs using macros in Rust or template Haskell. In Lean 4 you can even add grammar to the Lean parser. I feel like the good parts of lisps have been adopted by typed languages...
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You can't natively index into a string and get any C syntactic token out of it besides a char.
You can write some library functions to get you more sophisticated indexing, if that's what you want.