On 01/02/2019 15:23, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > This looks very cool. Thanks. > Long long ago, I wrote something similar for > other free software projects, and my one piece of advice is not to > commit to writing really frequently. Every month, or even every few > months, is great. > Wise words! :) Yes, initially I planned every second week but it might end up being on the first of each month. We shall see... I certainly think there are enough things going on to do it on a monthly basis. A lot of the stuff can be automated and if I have people contributing and I can automate that integration as well so that I act as a hole-filler and editor, even better. Thanks. > Sam > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 6:40 AM 'Paulo Matos' via Racket Users > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A quick preamble: I have been thinking about creating something along >> these lines for awhile but only just got my hands dirty. Here's the >> first issue. Web page is a work in progress at racket-news.com. >> >> I was thinking about publishing the text version (from raco scribble >> --text) in here for each issue (I just noticed that the text export >> doesn't export links so feel free to refer to the online version). If >> you feel this shouldn't be posted to the mailing list, please let me know. >> >> Also, this effort is only worth it IF the community thinks there's >> something to gain from this. Please feel free to comment, suggest or >> tell me it's a waste of time. I am not going to widely publicize this >> until I nail the webpage and people think it's worth it. >> >> So, here we go... >> >> Web version: http://racket-news.com/2019/02/racket-news-issue-1.html >> >> Title: Racket News - Issue 1 Date: 2019-02-01T08:00:00 >> >> Welcome to the first issue of Racket News. I am hoping this will be of >> interest to everyone in the Racket community so if there’s something you >> really dislike, or something you want to see added to the newsletter >> please send me an email or submit a PR. >> >> Also, I think at the moment a bi-weekly or monthly newsletter is >> something reasonable. By this I mean that I should have time to put it >> together at this regular interval with enough interesting content. If >> things happen differently when I will change how often it comes out. >> >> In this issue we have the Racket 7.2 release, update on RacketCS, and a >> few extra goodies that came out recently. >> >> What’s New? >> >> Racket 7.2 released >> >> Racket 7.2 has been released! Vincent St-Amour has announced the release >> on January 30, 2019. The listed improvements include collapsible >> contracts, QuickScript integration, and various improvements to racklog, >> among others. >> >> RacketCS >> >> This week we saw an update on Racket-On-Chez by Matthew Flatt. For those >> who missed the boat, the whole point of this transition is >> maintainability. Hopefully with a more maintainable system, things will >> get easier for those currently contributing to Racket but also newcomers >> to Racket might more easily contribute PRs to improve the system in >> general. >> >> The summary on the report is that Racket on Chez is considered mostly >> done with all functionility in place and most tests passing. There are a >> few things where RacketCS won’t behave the same as current Racket: >> >> * no single-precision or extended-precision flonums; >> >> * some differences in the FFI; >> >> * no support for C API; >> >> There are a few other incompatible points but for more detail please >> refer to the original post. RacketCS will never be fully compatible with >> Racket, therefore he whole point is to get people to move their stuff to >> RacketCS and get rid of the current Racket variant. >> >> However, there are some performance issues that might block a few >> applications from transitioning right away. Alex Harsanyi, developer of >> ActivityLog2 mentioned in the mailing list that in his case RacketCS is >> significantly slower than Racket 7.1. Matthew promised in a reply no >> switch will happen until performance is good enough. Alex elaborated his >> point further by providing function timings of ActivityLog2 in this >> gist. >> >> Wiki >> >> Stephen de Gabrielle has been seriously active on the wiki side of >> things. It has some really interesting content and you should check it >> out. >> >> Racket Github Topic >> >> Stephen de Gabrielle has beautified the GitHub topic for Racket through >> a PR. >> >> Upcoming Meetups >> >> * FOSDEM2019 - On Feb. 2,3 in Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM will take place. >> There is a minimalistic languages interest group where Racket will be >> mentioned a few times >> >> * BOB2019 - Right before Racketfest, also in Berlin, Germany. Directly >> related to Racket, you a talk by our own Shriram Krishnamurthi and a >> tutorial by Jesse Alama on WebDev >> >> * RacketFest - Jesse Alama is organizing the first European Racket >> Meeting. It will take place in Berlin, Germany on March 23, 2019. Make >> sure you get your ticket before they sell out... again! >> >> Racket around the web >> >> Here are a few blog posts about Racket... >> >> * Racket-on-Chez Status: January 2019 >> >> * Can we abstract control flow? >> >> Project of the Week >> >> We all know how there are so many hidden gems in the Racket world. I >> hope, in this section, to make these gems shine, one at a time. >> >> So for this week I chose to mention: Rash by William Hatch. >> >> From its webpage: >> >> Rash is a shell language, library, and REPL for Racket. >> >> Use as a repl that is as convenient for pipelining programs as Bash is, >> but has all the power of Racket. Use as a scripting language with #lang >> rash. Embed in normal Racket files with (require rash), and mix freely >> with any other Racket language or library. >> >> Rash is in active development, but it is largely stable (and the parts >> that aren't are marked as such). I use it as my default interactive >> shell on my laptop. It currently lacks the interactive polish of Zsh or >> Fish, but it is so much better as a language. Every script I've ported >> from a bourne-related shell to Rash is more robust, simpler, easier to >> maintain, easier to expand, and much more fun. >> >> I have used it on a regular basis to easily access the shell from Racket >> and it is brilliant. Check it out! >> >> Help Needed >> >> Do you know a project looking for contributors? I would love to hear >> about it. >> >> * Racket News: Besides the obvious, What would you like to see next? I >> could use a hand to design some sort of logo and maybe make >> suggestions with regards to the website design. Using Frog with the >> Clean blog bootstrap4 theme but I am definitely way out of my league >> as soon as I need to do any CSS or design. >> >> Stats of mention >> >> Here is some data from the development of Racket for the month of >> January, 2019. >> >> Number of master Commits131 >> Number of Opened PRs 2 >> Number of Merged PRs 7 >> Number of Opened Bugs 4 >> Number of Closed Bugs 7 >> Bugs open 282 >> PRs open 87 >> >> Contributions by (12): >> >> * Ben Greenman >> >> * dharmatech >> >> * Greg Hendershott >> >> * Gustavo Massaccesi >> >> * Jay McCarthy >> >> * Matthew Flatt >> >> * Robby Findler >> >> * rxg >> >> * Ryan Culpepper >> >> * Spencer Florence >> >> * Vincent St-Amour >> >> * Winny >> >> Jobs >> >> If you want to advertise any Racket related jobs, please send me an >> email or submit a PR. >> >> Disclaimer >> >> This issue is brought to you by Paulo Matos. Any mistakes or >> inaccuracies are solely mine and they do not represent the views of the >> PLT team, who develop Racket. >> >> I have also tried to survey the most relevant things that happened in >> Racket-lan(g|d) recently. If you have done something awesome, wrote a >> blog post or seen something that I missed - my apologies. Let me know so >> I can rectify it in the next issue. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Paulo Matos >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Paulo Matos -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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