Racket

#1

Post by bdj » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 6:15 PM UTC

Racket
racket-lang.org

Re: Racket

#2

Post by bandris » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 6:25 PM UTC

"Racket's interactive mode encourages experimentation, and quick scripts easily compose into larger systems. Small scripts and large systems both benefit from native-code JIT compilation. When a system gets too big to keep in your head, you can add static types."

Impressive.

Re: Racket

#3

Post by _pius » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:09 PM UTC

I love seeing framework or language homepages with good copy and design like this one. The best ones make you want to stop what you're doing in your favorite language and go code something with the new hotness right now.

Re: Racket

#4

Post by angrycoder » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:21 PM UTC

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.

Re: Racket

#5

Post by jey » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:22 PM UTC

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

Re: Racket

#6

Post by jheriko » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:27 PM UTC

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

Re: Racket

#7

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:33 PM UTC

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Re: Racket

#8

Post by Confusion » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:33 PM UTC

For reference:

Yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408292

Some months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221374

Re: Racket

#9

Post by Ixiaus » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:34 PM UTC

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.

Re: Racket

#10

Post by chbarts » Mon, Jun 07, 2010, 7:34 PM UTC

jheriko wrote: post #6

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

How many kinds of problem do we need to solve? Finding the best language to solve that problem in is dependent upon a large number of languages existing. Otherwise, you have two problems: Solving the problem itself, and extending the language you have into something capable of solving that problem.