Dear Racketeers, I've been using Racket on and off for small-scale private projects over several years. Unfortunately the majority of my development work has been based on .NET Framework as part of my daily job.
I'm interested in incorporating Racket into my software stack but I need to be able to support interoperating with Microsoft services in use in my organization. I'm considering developing a package designed to create and manage .NET objects and services from within Racket. For the past several weeks I've been doing exploratory work with Racket's ffi/unsafe library and .NET CLR's low level plumbing to understand what would be required to create a such package. It's all very preliminary right now and much design work remains to be done. The Pythonnet project serves as an existing example of a similar type of package. Before I get too deep into this, I'm doing my due diligence. I did a keyword search of Racket's package catalog and the users mailing list archives but didn't find any existing prior work along similar lines. I did find a thread from 2011 asking about .NET support. I'm asking on the list if anyone has done or know of any similar work? Currently I'm starting from scratch but would like to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts if I can help it. Appropriate credit will of course be given. Because .NET is object-oriented, therefore code written for that platform is designed along the lines or compiled to OO semantics — see C# versus F# — my current idea is to create a Racket API using Racket's own class system to map to .NET classes. The .NET OO semantics are similar enough to Racket's system I think it can be adapted to interface with .NET without too much impedance mismatch. Any design ideas or suggestions are very much welcome. Best, Alexander McLin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
