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Racket v9.3

83 points by privong ago | 5 comments

salsa_catsup |next [-]

Is Racket the Lisp where I wanted to write keywords like `foo:` or `:foo`, but they went with something like `'#:foo`, which ruined keyword syntax for me?

pavpanchekha |previous [-]

I do a substantial amount of coding in Racket, including maintaining the Herbie numerical compiler (https://herbie.uwplse.org/) over the last decade.

Racket is great! The runtime is reasonably fast, and the standard library is exceptionally featureful, including, for example, a decent plotting library, an HTTP server, decent HTML and JSON support, several forms of multi-threading, and a quite good FFI, all of which Herbie uses extensively. I suppose the parentheses are a question of taste (I like them!) but a lot of the specific syntactic decisions, like the `for` and `match` macros, are quite nice.

akoboldfrying |root |parent |next [-]

What a neat tool, I had no idea such a thing existed!

summarity |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Thank you for Herbie btw, it continues to be one of the most used tools in my personal projects (all 3D math and rendering)

whateveracct |root |parent |previous [-]

the runtime is chez, right?