Racket v7.2

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Post by ethelward » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 10:32 AM UTC

Racket v7.2
blog.racket-lang.org

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by jashmatthews » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 11:20 AM UTC

Matthew Flatt did an excellent talk "Incremental Parallelization of Dynamic Languages" on Racket https://air.mozilla.org/incremental-parallelization-of-dynam...

There's a lot of useful discussion in here about parallelism which also applies to Ruby, Python, Lua etc.

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by IngoBlechschmid » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

Mike Sperber used Racket in his excellent 35c3 talk "How to teach programming to your loved ones": https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to...

From the abstract: "A word of warning: The resulting approach is radically different from most teaching approaches used in universities and schools. In particular, it avoids teaching purely through examples and expecting students to develop the skills to arrive at the solutions on their own. Instead, it eaches explicit methodology that enables students to solve problems of surprising complexity on their own, whether they are 11 or 55, whether in a classroom, a training facility, or your home. Extensive documentation, material, and software to support this methodology is available for free."

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by kumarvvr » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

Does anyone use this in production? Will this be a good platform to develop a DSL for a web app?

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by mac_was » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:11 PM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #4

Does anyone use this in production? Will this be a good platform to develop a DSL for a web app?

I do not think so as this has bern mainly created for teaching but recently I had the same question

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:14 PM UTC

IngoBlechschmid wrote: post #3

Mike Sperber used Racket in his excellent 35c3 talk "How to teach programming to your loved ones": https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to... From the abstract: "A word of warning: The resulting approach is radically different from most teaching approaches used in universities and schools. In particular, it avoids teaching purely through examples and expecting students to develop the skills to ar…

Thanks for sharing, added to my watch list.

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:15 PM UTC

jashmatthews wrote: post #2

Matthew Flatt did an excellent talk "Incremental Parallelization of Dynamic Languages" on Racket https://air.mozilla.org/incremental-parallelization-of-dynam... There's a lot of useful discussion in here about parallelism which also applies to Ruby, Python, Lua etc.

Thanks for sharing, added to my watch list.

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by magpi3 » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #4

Does anyone use this in production? Will this be a good platform to develop a DSL for a web app?

Doesn't HN use Racket?

Edit: according to wikipedia Arc, which HN is written in, is developed in Racket

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by pritambaral » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:24 PM UTC

jashmatthews wrote: post #2

Matthew Flatt did an excellent talk "Incremental Parallelization of Dynamic Languages" on Racket https://air.mozilla.org/incremental-parallelization-of-dynam... There's a lot of useful discussion in here about parallelism which also applies to Ruby, Python, Lua etc.

Is this video available without a login?

Re: Racket v7.2

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Post by jboynyc » Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 12:42 PM UTC

kumarvvr wrote: post #4

Does anyone use this in production? Will this be a good platform to develop a DSL for a web app?

Here's a little write-up from somebody who uses Racket in production in a commercial web product: https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/05/extramaze-llc-using-...