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Congratulations on retirement! The UI libraries in Racket are pretty interesting in that they use the native UI on whatever platform you happen to be running o
by peatmoss 8y ago
Congratulations on retirement!
The UI libraries in Racket are pretty interesting in that they use the native UI on whatever platform you happen to be running on. I haven’t seen a lot of larger GUI app examples, but I have to wonder if Racket isn’t a viable option for creating cross-platform apps that don’t have the same compromises as something like Electron.
There was a video language demoed at RacketCon a couple years ago that showed code and video elements working together within the DrRacket IDE. I keep wondering if there’s an opportunity for something akin to macOS / NeXT / GNUStep Interface Builder, but using a Racket DSL to define the UI layouts.
My other Racket daydream is, for data munging the R community has built some impressive DSLs as part of the “tidyverse.” If I had time, I’d certainly spend some time seeing if I couldn’t push further in Racket.
- mark_l_watson 8y agoI have a experimental code that converts saved Keras deep learning models to a Racket friendly format, and I wrote a small Racket runtime for running pretrained models. My idea is treating models functionally and mixing in with old-School symbolic AI code. I am having some problems making the runtime efficient enough even using the native matrix libraries.