On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 01:49:23AM -0700, Yongming Shen wrote: > On the topic of making Racket 2 more appealing to new users. As a new user > myself, I have one (likely uninformed) suggestion: > > Design and promote a "boring core subset" that an experienced programmer > can pick up easily and be as productive as when using an "ordinary > programming language", without writing any macros. Macros are awesome, > language-oriented programming is also awesome, if Racket 2 without them can > be as appealing (minus third-party library aspects) to programmers as > Python/Ruby/Go/..., then Racket 2 plus them will certainly win hearts.
If you ignore the ability to define macros, isn't Racket already more or less what you propose? Except, perhaps, for all the parentheses? -- hendrik -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20190802104435.wpqn5vqbcmxzlfte%40topoi.pooq.com.
