On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:02:56 -0700 (PDT), Sage Gerard <zyrolast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I see Racket can be used for web development, but is Racket >really what I need to meet the demands of multi-platform >development while competing in the market? Does Racket >(or similar) sit at the next stage of evolution for the >multi-domain developer stuck in Javascript? If so, why? I guess it depends on what exactly you mean by "multi-platform development". Most Racket code will run unchanged on any supported platform. However, Racket does not run in browsers, so it is not [yet] as ubiquitous as Javascript. As Alan mentioned already, there is work being done to make Racket compile to Javascript, but AFAIK, it is limited to text mode programs currently. Text-mode applications are highly transportable. As one data point, I develop web database apps on Windows that are deployed as headless services (daemons) on Linux. The amount of OS specific code is very minimal: in my case, it has been limited to needing to discriminate some system specific error codes. Racket has its own GUI library and application framework, and programs written using them [try to] look/feel like native apps as closely as possible on any supported GUI platform. The library is generic and doesn't include every possibility of every platform, but if you can stay within its limits, your code will be largely transportable. IME, Racket comes about as close to "write-once, run anywhere" as Java ever could realistically claim. YMMV, George -- 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.
