> On Nov 24, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I’m thinking about spending some of my spare time on DrRacket and the GUI > libraries and would appreciate your feedback about where you think I should > put my efforts, both in the ideas below (that I have cribbed from other > IDE’s) and any suggestions you have. >
Let me start with a big “thank you.” Many of these things are needed and will greatly improve DrR’s usability. When I run my Sw Dev course at Northeastern, I allow students to use whatever language/IDE they want. I often see ideas in new IDEs that we have/thought of a long time ago and think “cool perhaps they imitated us and Robby should feel immensely flattered.” And then I see cool ideas in these new IDEs and I am jealous. I don’t want to be jealous, I just want these features :-) > I don’t want to go down any paths that might be undesirable in general, but > also specifically in the role as a IDE for teaching/learning. > Totally understood. > I believe the concept of ‘projects’ (like in xcode) is undesirable in this > context, but please correct me if I am wrong about this. > > Correct. If you ever feel the need for a project, we need to improve the language. I’ve read your list and I like all of the ideas. So w/o sounding like someone who will steal all your time, can I have all of it :-) — Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/73FF4A08-CB0F-4142-BE5A-CA11470EB548%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
