[racket] How about a python ffi for Racket?

2013-10-03 Thread Andrews, Kyle (KC)
Near the end of Matthew Bassett's talk at RacketCon someone mentioned that the Racket developers had integrated Racket with python several times in the past. If so, what are the challenges towards creating a general purpose python ffi for Racket? As someone else who does a lot "guerrilla" Rack

Re: [racket] How about a python ffi for Racket?

2013-10-04 Thread Matthias Felleisen
One of my former student researchers performed this work (Daniel Silva supervised by Philippe Meunier). My rough impressions: -- he tried three different approaches in roughly 2003-2005, the embedding Racket into a C process seemed to work best -- nothing worked perfectly at the time because

Re: [racket] How about a python ffi for Racket?

2013-10-04 Thread Philippe Meunier
Matthias Felleisen wrote: >One of my former student researchers performed this work (Daniel >Silva supervised by Philippe Meunier). The web site for the project: http://plt-spy.sourceforge.net/home.html And the code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/plt-spy/ Anyone who's interested in playing with