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What is the use case for this?
Because its on top of Racket, you get usual high-level language faculties for basically free.
Lisp is its own meta-language, and Racket is even more meta. It's a language construction kit, essentially.
I've often heard this, but I don't really know of many people in the PL dev community who build their language in Racket. Also, I've taught a PL course and I tried to use Racket as a component, but students mostly just struggled with the LISP-y ness of it all, as they were primarily used to Java and Python. In all, I'm not really sure who Racket is for.
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Agree? Or maybe none of them graduate into a role where they get to decide what language to use?
Everyone gets to choose which language they use for their personal projects. Where are all the Racket personal projects? N.B. I say this as someone who personally contributed small fixes to Racket in the 90s (when it was called mzscheme) and 00s (when it was called PLT-Scheme).
There's nothing wrong with an academic/research language like Racket, Oberon, and Standard ML.
Racket is a fun language. My university uses the bundled teaching languages for first year CS courses. Some people really hate it, and others silently like it.
Racket is a fun language. My university uses the bundled teaching languages for first year CS courses. Some people really hate it, and others silently like it.
What was the name of the class?
What is the use case for this?
As the other reply said, it is general purpose. It has a focus on education tooling, and language design (languages can be easily implemented on Racket)
Lisp is its own meta-language, and Racket is even more meta. It's a language construction kit, essentially.
I've often heard this, but I don't really know of many people in the PL dev community who build their language in Racket. Also, I've taught a PL course and I tried to use Racket as a component, but students mostly just struggled with the LISP-y ness of it all, as they were primarily used to Java and Python. In all, I'm not really sure who Racket is for.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And all of them agrees to never use it after university, which is quite telling.
I admit I'm one of those students who never used Racket in a non-academic setting (but mostly because I needed to contribute to already-existing projects written in different languages), and I was taught Racket from one of its main contributors, John Clements at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. However, learning Racket planted a seed in me that would later grow into a love of programming languages beyond industry-standard i…
If it had been,"write a real-time driver for a memory-limited piece of hardware", you may have had a different preference.