Racket Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• How to Learn Java Streams
  reddit.com/r/learnjava | 2021-09-21

  You can use racket for practice.

• Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021
  reddit.com/r/lisp | 2021-09-21

  If you are thinking of using Racket, some resources are collected at https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Game-Development

• How can I manually tell org-babel how it should export a particular keyword in a particular programming language?
  reddit.com/r/orgmode | 2021-09-12

  I am writing a lot about functional programming and have a lot of code snippets in the Racket language. It uses a lot of Lambda-syntax and I would like the lambda keyword to be exported using the actual Greek letter for Lambda (λ). Why? Cause I like the aesthetics, and it's more readable if you have a lot of them in a snippet.

• How do I implement Racket from scratch?
  reddit.com/r/Racket | 2021-08-31

  For a list of all the functions implemented by the runtime, you can look at the files in this directory: https://github.com/racket/racket/tree/master/racket/src/cs/primitive

  reddit.com/r/Racket | 2021-08-31
• Question
  reddit.com/r/compsci | 2021-08-17

  But also take a look at things like Racket and the neat online companion book the original development team wrote about it. It's a great little language for prototyping ideas.

• Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-14

  Cool :).

  The thing is to have an always start-to-end working compiler for an increasingly (even if the steps are very small) complex language.

  Another point would be to use simple tools at least to begin with. Racket [1] provides good lexer/parser tools [2] and you can use pattern matching [3] to browse and transform your AST. You can also target MIPS assembly [4] using the SPIM platform [5] for example, it is easy to learn and has very good debugging tools (basically the whole platform behaves like a gdb session).

  For the compiler implementation language OCaml is also a very good choice (even better because static typing will actually help you a lot with the horizontal approach) but it is less easier to setup as you need to install a lot more tools: ocaml itself, ocamllex (lexer), menhir (parser), ocamlbuild (automated build system), etc.

  [1] https://racket-lang.org/

  [2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/parser-tools/

  [3] https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/match.html

  [4] http://www.cburch.com/cs/330/reading/mips-ref.pdf

  [5] http://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net/

• Show HN: Visualizing a Codebase
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-05

  Clicky: https://octo.github.com/projects/repo-visualization

  I tried with https://github.com/racket/racket and for some reason it puts all the content of the subfolder "racket"/"src" in a vertical strip near the middle of the circle instead of spreading the parts evenly. How is each part arranged?

• Which FOSS project do you recommend donating to and why?
  reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-08-04

  I'd donate to open-source federated social media. Furthermore, I'd like to see modern functional programming languages being developed further (Idris and Racket are on my list).

• Racket Docker images
  reddit.com/r/Racket | 2021-07-31
• Looking for immutable collections library
  reddit.com/r/scheme | 2021-07-29

  Racket is built on top of Chez Scheme and often has both mutable and immutable versions of data structures. I wonder if you can copy what you need from the source code.

• It's actually very difficult to get normal people into programming
  reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions | 2021-07-18

  I do spend some of my free timwe looking at stuff e.g. about code smells, and I also learn other languages like Raclet to see what they can show me about FP, recursion, et. al

• Racket version 8.2 is now available
  reddit.com/r/Racket | 2021-07-18

  https://racket-lang.org/

• Programming language for CS 1101?
  reddit.com/r/WPI | 2021-07-15

  Just as some clarification - Dr. Racket is the IDE that they have you use. The language itself is just Racket, and there are fairly extensive online resources on it, such as the official website: https://racket-lang.org/

• Making a other language in LUA
  reddit.com/r/lua | 2021-07-10

  OP, use https://racket-lang.org/ instead of lua. Racket is meant for DSL and language development it will be much easier to get started there, not to mention it has a live community which is very enthusiastic about language development.