nine_k 22 minutes ago Lisp is its own meta-language, and Racket is even more meta. It's a language construction kit, essentially.
webdevver 37 minutes ago i only know about racket because Carmack was doing Oculus stuff with it once 10 years ago:https://youtu.be/ydyztGZnbNs?t=412 gabrielsroka 27 minutes ago HN is written in Arc, and Arc is (was?) written in Racket.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) superdisk 21 minutes ago It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
gabrielsroka 27 minutes ago HN is written in Arc, and Arc is (was?) written in Racket.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) superdisk 21 minutes ago It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
superdisk 21 minutes ago It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
varun_ch 30 minutes ago 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. epolanski 12 minutes ago And all of them agrees to never use it after university, which is quite telling.
epolanski 12 minutes ago And all of them agrees to never use it after university, which is quite telling.
Lisp is its own meta-language, and Racket is even more meta. It's a language construction kit, essentially.
i only know about racket because Carmack was doing Oculus stuff with it once 10 years ago:
https://youtu.be/ydyztGZnbNs?t=412
HN is written in Arc, and Arc is (was?) written in Racket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
It was actually ported to a Common Lisp based implementation a while back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683969
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.
And all of them agrees to never use it after university, which is quite telling.
What is the use case for this?