Atlas, I get the impression, from the impassioned discussion thus far,
that a lot of the community really wants an s-expression syntax (and
print form for data) to be not merely backwards-compatibile supported,
*but to remain fully a "first-class citizen"*.
I suspect that the top-level requirements and the nature of community
involvement will become more clear in a few weeks, after everyone
returns from summer vacations, and has a chance to catch to catch their
breath and discuss.
Racket has approx. a two-decade history of good stability and
engineering, so I think we can have a little patience, while the various
confusing new things -- the Conservancy, community relationship and
process, Racket2, whatever happens now that the Chez backend is firming
up -- all get figured out and get solid starts.
(Relevant aside: I want to mention that I'm also hoping to see Honu, in
particular, promoted better in Racket. Once I looked at the paper, the
other day, I was surprised that it hadn't really been promoted already
for practical use. It's additional complexity beyond s-expressions, but
the approach looks clever. I'll be interested to see how people use it
in practice. That might start with a better Racket manual for Honu.
And maybe one of the the textbooks ends up using Honu for a teaching
language. And maybe someone shows a DSL construction tutorial using
Honu to do the parsing work. That doesn't have to mean Honu bumps
s-expression to "second-class citizen" status, such as in Racket manuals
or ongoing development. Nor does that have to mean that Honu becomes
the form that might be displayed when data and syntax objects, such as
when viewing the intermediate representation of Racket as a
language-oriented programming platform or construction kit.)
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