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Racket—the Language-Oriented Programming Language—version 8.12 is now available from https://racket-lang.org

See https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-v8-12-is-now-availab... for the release announcement and highlights.

Thank you to the many people who contributed to this release!

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Racket version 8.11.1 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/

Racket (https://racket-lang.org) has an IDE (DrRacket) which isn't EMACS. ARC (which powers hacker news) is (was?) written in Racket.

Nice! Repeating a comment I just made on HN: I signed up for RacketCon, will be joining remotely. I am looking forward to it a lot. Usually I use the Racket language perhaps for 10% of my personal projects, but I am currently writing a Racket AI book, so all things Racket are of current interest. Past RacketCons have been a lot of fun. I usually use Common Lisp, but Racket is batteries included Scheme, and more, and is a very pleasant language and ecosystem. Just in case you don’t have Racket installed: https://racket-lang.org/

I signed up for RacketCon, joining remotely. I am looking forward to it a lot. Usually I use the Racket language perhaps for 10% of my personal projects, but I am currently writing a Racket AI book, so all things Racket are of current interest.

Past RacketCons have been a lot of fun.

I usually use Common Lisp, but Racket is batteries included Scheme, and more, and is a very pleasant language and ecosystem. Just in case you don’t have Racket installed: https://racket-lang.org/

I'd suggest Racket (https://racket-lang.org) which is a batteries-included language environment that includes scheme and has a lot of high-quality documentation.

Guile (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/) isn't quite as learner-focused but is another great choice.

How did I get to the bottom of the page and not ONE person has recommended racket?

The Racket fork of CS supports Apple Silicon natively, and can be installed independently: https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/racket/src/ChezScheme/BUILDING Chez adds a few features (threads, ffi, ...) to R6RS; there is a useful combined index to TSPL4 and the CS User Guide at http://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug9.5/csug_1.html

If you're using SICP in Scheme (or are you doing the JS version?) then you may want to look at How to Design Programs. It uses Racket which is a Scheme descendent so much of the language you've learned in SICP will work in it without issue. It also has a pretty good set of GUI and drawing capabilities you can find through the Racket docs page and will use some of with HTDP.

If you look at the repo for that guide (https://github.com/evancz/guide.elm-lang.org), the description and README clearly state that this is his book on learning Elm, so for me it makes complete sense that it is in the I-form. Maybe the fact that it's linked from the official Elm page without any mention of that causes a feeling of disconnect for you.

An Introduction to Elm (HTML)

I am continually perplexed how poor the official documentation is for Elm (https://guide.elm-lang.org). I love the language, I really enjoy working with it, but where does one go to see the complete API? In particular right now I'm trying to find more on setting various events and accessibility attributes in forms, and this is all I see on the official docs: https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/forms.html. Not even a label example on a form page? How is this considered good documentation for a language that has been around for a decade? Is there some secret handshake I need to learn to get access to more in-depth documentation of the language?

I think a good first step would be getting familiar with functional programming in general. I recommend working through the Elm Guide, which will get you acquainted with functional programming idioms and working with immutable data. Then, move on to an introductory Haskell resources, such as Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours. After that, hit up CodeWars and start solving puzzles in Haskell.

I think The Elm Guide does a very good job.

Check out Elm. Page 4 of the intro guide I linked offers something close, which you could build upon to create what you want there.

My advice is to follow the elm official guide. Anyway, any doubt you may have, ping me (gabber) on Elm official slack or write to #beginners channel!

This guide will help you learn and migrate to Elm with assumption you already know the basics of React. The Elm guide is great and will give you a thorough understanding of everything you need to know, in a good order.

Elm Introduction: https://guide.elm-lang.org/

The official Elm guide