Re: [racket-users] Racket2 on a ubiquitous platform [was the case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2]

2019-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:03:02AM +0800, stewart mackenzie wrote: > > If you want to Racket2 popular make it easy for users to get the > programmer's responsive applications and programmers will come in > droves. Drop Chez, reimplement the Racket interpreter in Rust and > target it at WASM. I

Re: [racket-users] Racket2 on a ubiquitous platform [was the case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2]

2019-07-25 Thread Neil Van Dyke
A lot of interesting ideas, stewart.  For now, I'll just highlight this one, and a few bulleted comments: stewart mackenzie wrote on 7/25/19 3:03 PM: If you want to Racket2 popular make it easy for users to get the programmer's responsive applications and programmers will come in droves. Drop

[racket-users] Racket2 on a ubiquitous platform [was the case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2]

2019-07-25 Thread stewart mackenzie
I want expand on and make sure Maria's point doesn't get lost in that firestorm over at [the case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2] . Maria is bang on the money imho (her email is copied below mine) JVM got popular because programmers didn't need to program C. Javascript and