Thanks Matthias. Your enthusiasm and guidance is appreciated - I do what I can.
I'm prioritising; a) adding some more recent pictures to DrR documentation (adding images from racket 6.11) a) starting on an address/context bar - https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/171 Also - thank you to Robby who has already provided much guidance and support. Stephen On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 at 21:30, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Ealing (London), UK -- 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/CAGHj7-KZy1QbcrG1FYWxeanXttpveG4-CkMn7qDS8iee%2B_1%3D%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
