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Re: Racket

#21

Post by jmatt »

angrycoder wrote: post #4

Now that is great rebranding. All it needs now is 'try Racket in your browser' and a video of some dude making a blog in 15 minutes using Racket. Then it will be the new hotness.

Yeah that is great rebranding.

All it needs now is 'try Racket in your browser' and a video of some dude making a blog in 15 minutes using Racket. Then it will be the new hotness.

You're using it now. Arc was built on top of PLT and news.arc ships with it. So,you are using the killer app / example that you are looking for right now.

:)

EDIT: Clarification

Re: Racket

#22

Post by leif »

spooneybarger wrote: post #13
gorm wrote: post #11

As if we are not already busy learning clojure?

You're learning clojure and don't know scheme?

I actually did this.

Frigging worthless university programming courses didn't bother teaching scheme.

Learning scheme's libraries on my own along with the lisp paradigm proved too daunting before (or maybe I just never found the right toy project to stick with, not really sure). Having java libraries there to back me up (I was doing stuff with hadoop too, so that made sense) gave me the little leg up I needed to get over the hump.

Re: Racket

#23

Post by hvs »

It'll be interesting to see where they go with this; there seems to be a conscious effort to downplay the words "Scheme" and "Lisp" on the landing pages. I'm more of a Common Lisper myself (at least for my personal development), but I've been impressed with the PLT Scheme environment and languages. And anything that increases the use of the lisp family of languages is, imo, a good thing.

Others will obviously disagree with that sentiment. :)

Re: Racket

#24

Post by hvs »

jheriko wrote: post #6

Its cool, but I wonder just how many high-level web oriented languages we really need...

I don't think I would refer to a language that has its roots in the first high-level programming languages ever devised as "web-oriented." You may want to look up the words "Lisp" and "Scheme" in Wikipedia.

Re: Racket

#27

Post by ximeng »

angrycoder wrote: post #4

Now that is great rebranding. All it needs now is 'try Racket in your browser' and a video of some dude making a blog in 15 minutes using Racket. Then it will be the new hotness.

Not quite a video, and I think it will take a bit longer than 15 minutes, but here's their tutorial on making a blog.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html

Re: Racket

#28

Post by Ixiaus »

jey wrote: post #12
Ixiaus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really a "language" but an implementation of the Scheme programming language.

IIRC, the whole point of renaming it Racket is to show that PLT Scheme is "more than just scheme".

I realize that, but it would be false to call it a "language"; it's more appropriate to call it an "environment".

Re: Racket

#29

Post by KirinDave »

cgbystrom wrote: post #19

Languages aside, I don't think the world needs another VM. Can't people just target an existing one? Please?

If the FFI is good, why do you care?

The PLT VM is very very good, and their FFI is very flexible. If you want a lispy dialect on the Java VM, you have one. But otherwise, why does it matter?

Re: Racket

#30

Post by makmanalp »

Ixiaus wrote: post #9
jey wrote: post #5

Weird that it doesn't mention that it's the language formerly known as PLT Scheme.

Not really a "language" but an implementation of the Scheme programming language.

My impression is that it goes way far and beyond the scheme standard with all its additional features.
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