Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by racketlang » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 4:33 PM UTC

Racket v5.3.6 released
blog.racket-lang.org

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by test-it » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

Any Racketeers over here?

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by racketlang » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 7:20 PM UTC

Full list of changes for 5.3.6: https://github.com/plt/racket/commits/v5.3.6

This was a bug-fix release. In Typed Racket, one set of fixes adds support for struct:, define-type, and require/typed at the REPL. The DrRacket bug with [ on some keyboards was also fixed. For the rest, see the log above.

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by Zuider » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 7:53 PM UTC

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

Yeah - working through "Realm of Racket".

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by codygman » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

Zuider wrote: post #4

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

Yeah - working through "Realm of Racket".

Same here, really enjoying it. I have/had a few pain points, but I'm writing a detailed review of the book as I go through it and those will be in there.

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by marshray » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

racketlang wrote: post #3

Full list of changes for 5.3.6: https://github.com/plt/racket/commits/v5.3.6 This was a bug-fix release. In Typed Racket, one set of fixes adds support for struct:, define-type, and require/typed at the REPL. The DrRacket bug with [ on some keyboards was also fixed. For the rest, see the log above.

TIL 'Scheme with Types' is a thing. Thanks!

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by gcr » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

Racketeer on and off since 2010. It's a really great language; I encourage everyone to at least give it a try.

The racket docs (http://docs.racket-lang.org/) have a list of tutorials at the top. There's a visual art/programming tutorial for those new to lisp (http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/) and a webapp one (http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/) that demonstrates Racket's built-in web framework.

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by aufreak3 » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 11:13 PM UTC

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

(wave)

Some years ago though. Wrote the "style browser" stand-alone application in DrScheme. Damn! Feeling nostalgic about Scheme as I browse through some old code :)

https://code.google.com/p/muvee-style-authoring/

If you're looking to dabble in Racket and are looking for pet project ideas, here is one I've had in mind for years --

Make a "browser"!

By that I don't mean make something that renders HTML/CSS, runs JavaScript, etc. Instead, make a browser whose "HTML page" is actually a Racket program that loads off a http URL and runs in the "browser"'s window. racket/sandbox is a candidate for sandboxing these runs. Give the script access to drawing on the window, making a sound, limited file system access, etc over time. A standard http server can serve these files, but something extra fun would be a server that also runs Racket that you can use s-expressions to communicate with (bye bye JSON).

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by s_kilk » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 11:23 PM UTC

aufreak3 wrote: post #8

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

(wave) Some years ago though. Wrote the "style browser" stand-alone application in DrScheme. Damn! Feeling nostalgic about Scheme as I browse through some old code :) https://code.google.com/p/muvee-style-authoring/ If you're looking to dabble in Racket and are looking for pet project ideas, here is one I've had in mind for years -- Make a "browser"! By that I don't mean make something that renders HTML/CSS, runs Jav…

wow, that's a pretty cool idea. I would be very interested in seeing a project like this kick off

Re: Racket v5.3.6 released

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Post by nickmain » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 11:25 PM UTC

test-it wrote: post #2

Any Racketeers over here?

Using it full time for my day job (prototyping game engines and DSLs).