Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 possibilities

2019-07-22 Thread Maria Gabriela Guimarães
> I experimented with various scheme in browser intrepred via JavaScript and compiled to wasm both are not good enough. Insufficient implementations I suppose, or wasm misses features important for a Scheme ... Em segunda-feira, 22 de julho de 2019 15:33:59 UTC+1, amz3 escreveu: > > > > On

[racket-users] Re: Racket2 possibilities

2019-07-22 Thread Maria Gabriela Guimarães
I have read through all the posts before mine, and saw no reference to what could be the solution to the adoption problem. I only remember comments regarding how students feel unconfortable about s-expressions and all those parenthesis Making a language popular in my view is to make it

[racket-users] Re: The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-07-17 Thread Maria Gabriela Guimarães
Hello, community! Let me tell a few words about the idea of transitioning Racket to a traditional syntax to gain popularity: I think this idea is a fallacy. Racket is not popular due to its s-expression syntax, because Clojure has such a syntax, and still, it seems popular. So I don't think