Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 10:26 PM Tom Gillespie wrote: > > Neil mentioned Ryan's work on this in the thread about hacker news. There are > a number of issues with getting jupyter to play nicely with #langs some of > which I have submitted a pr for, but my solution is partial and very >

Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Tom Gillespie
Neil mentioned Ryan's work on this in the thread about hacker news. There are a number of issues with getting jupyter to play nicely with #langs some of which I have submitted a pr for, but my solution is partial and very suboptimal. A drracket-like solution, even just for kernels is likely not

Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
It seems like the better bang for buck might be implementing a Jupyter kernel, and leveraging that ecosystem. https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels > On Dec 20, 2018, at 02:46, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > If anyone is looking to avoid relatives over the winter holiday season,

[racket-users] help me make this lexer compile on racket !

2018-12-26 Thread 撒闿要
hi: https://gist.github.com/zhu-fei/14392eb5eae29607db72b1b7a09194d4 I want to compile this piece of code on racket , these code can compile with chez scheme , but not racket , anyone can help me out? thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Jason Stewart wrote on 12/26/18 5:25 PM: Even for blue-sky projects without any legacy lock-in, I don't fancy our chances with the enterprise/MIS crowd.  They tend to favor straight-jacket languages, and for good reason! Agreed.  (A big-corporate exception being R and "startup-like" units,

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Jason Stewart
Even for blue-sky projects without any legacy lock-in, I don't fancy our chances with the enterprise/MIS crowd. They tend to favor straight-jacket languages, and for good reason! For some guy running a two-man startup, something like Racket is a super weapon. For a large organization--with

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Stephen, thanks for the useful info on adoption in health sector MIS. Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 12/26/18 4:50 PM: PPS I think the Jupyter enhanced REPL idea is worth pursuing and extending as this might be a way generate interest in the Racket runtime and associated languages. BTW, to be

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Matthew, Neil, > the people who are persuadable. So who are the ‘persuadable’? And where to find them if not on hn? I’m one of the ‘corporate MIS programmers’, but in the public sector(health), and I get to interact with a variety of software vendors as well as and build forms, worklists,

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew Butterick wrote on 12/26/18 1:50 PM: I agree that success stories are helpful. I'll go one better — I think it would be great to have a section of the main Racket website devoted to these stories that show who uses Racket and how / why (inside & outside academia). This could be done in

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Matthew Butterick
I agree that success stories are helpful. I'll go one better — I think it would be great to have a section of the main Racket website devoted to these stories that show who uses Racket and how / why (inside & outside academia). This could be done in an interview-style format, like Jesse Alama's

Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 12/26/18 7:29 AM: Would this replace ‘interactions’, or would it be a new editor<%>? UI conceptual-wise, I think it would probably be a mode, in which Notebook window replaces Definitions and Interactions windows. Implementation-wise, I suspect it would probably

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 12/26/18 7:40 AM: How did other languages grow their audience? e.g. Ruby-on-Rails, Perl, Python, PHP, C++, Rust ? All of those had merits, were right place and at right time, and (except Rust) really spread when there was *a lot* less noise and sheer mass of

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Maybe a high profile social media patron - I’m sure JA is doing wonders for TiddlyWiki: https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/1077842077705293824?s=21 How did other languages grow their audience? e.g. Ruby-on-Rails, Perl, Python, PHP, C++, Rust ? (All fine languages with many strengths - but there

Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Like Maxima? DrRacket interactions already does most of what Jupyter and Maxima does, but lacks the functionality of cells, and the ability to re-evaluate them. Would this replace ‘interactions’, or would it be a new editor<%>? It’s a great idea - it seems a little like ‘code bubbles’, but for