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Racket for E-Commerce

138 points by soegaard 7y ago

sevengraff 7y ago
Really nice write up and frank about the shortcomings without being negative about it. Thanks for sharing this.
yawaramin 7y ago
Great post, beautiful site (and fast!). One passage caught my eye: > Deployments are not zero-downtime at this point and I’m planning to switch to an AB-style deployment model once the site has enough traffic to warrant it Do you mean blue-green deployment ( https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-green.html https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-gree... )? In any case note that you can do that even with just a single compute–just run both instances of the app in the same compute, on different ports–say, 3000 and 3001–and use a reverse proxy like Nginx to load-balance incoming HTTP traffic between them. Then you get blue-green deployment almost for free.
zitterbewegung 7y ago
Cool great post! Nice to hear of you again (I used to be r2q2 on #scheme from freenode !
bjz_ 7y ago
> The low runtime error rate is due to the amount of stuff that Racket manages to catch at compile time compared to other dynamic languages and to some fairly extensive automated testing. Interested to know if typed racket was used for this, and if so, what the experience was like!
- pavpanchekha 7y ago
  If you're interested in Typed Racket, you might be interested in my experience: http://pavpanchekha.com/blog/typed-racket-1.html http://pavpanchekha.com/blog/typed-racket-1.html I'm a fairly experienced Racket developer (6 years) but it was my first time trying Typed Racket. I ended up not keeping the part of my code that I typed.
seisvelas 7y ago
Awesome! I've used Racket for web development myself, wonderful experience. Glad you're having fun, good luck with your business.
dragonsh 7y ago
I like it, traditional html/css generated on server side with sprinkling of JS for interactivity. It's similar to rails and Django model but in racket (a dialect of lisp based on scheme branch of lisp family). This is a very good example for learning racket lang if the sourcecode is open for some parts. I am sure some member of racket community will bring up library specially designed to address e-commerce as it is in Ruby and Python eco-system. Hopefully it can be like what Paul, the founder of YC said in his blog post "beating the averages. [1] "In Lisp, there are programs called macros. They are programs that write programs." [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
ktaylor 7y ago
Racket is a great language that needs more recognition. Thanks for posting your experiences.

138 points by soegaard 7y ago

Really nice write up and frank about the shortcomings without being negative about it. Thanks for sharing this.

Great post, beautiful site (and fast!). One passage caught my eye: > Deployments are not zero-downtime at this point and I’m planning to switch to an AB-style deployment model once the site has enough traffic to warrant it Do you mean blue-green deployment ( https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-green.html https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-gree... )? In any case note that you can do that even with just a single compute–just run both instances of the app in the same compute, on different ports–say, 3000 and 3001–and use a reverse proxy like Nginx to load-balance incoming HTTP traffic between them. Then you get blue-green deployment almost for free.

zitterbewegung 7y ago

Cool great post! Nice to hear of you again (I used to be r2q2 on #scheme from freenode !

bjz_ 7y ago

> The low runtime error rate is due to the amount of stuff that Racket manages to catch at compile time compared to other dynamic languages and to some fairly extensive automated testing. Interested to know if typed racket was used for this, and if so, what the experience was like!

pavpanchekha 7y ago
If you're interested in Typed Racket, you might be interested in my experience: http://pavpanchekha.com/blog/typed-racket-1.html http://pavpanchekha.com/blog/typed-racket-1.html I'm a fairly experienced Racket developer (6 years) but it was my first time trying Typed Racket. I ended up not keeping the part of my code that I typed.

seisvelas 7y ago

Awesome! I've used Racket for web development myself, wonderful experience. Glad you're having fun, good luck with your business.

dragonsh 7y ago

I like it, traditional html/css generated on server side with sprinkling of JS for interactivity. It's similar to rails and Django model but in racket (a dialect of lisp based on scheme branch of lisp family). This is a very good example for learning racket lang if the sourcecode is open for some parts. I am sure some member of racket community will bring up library specially designed to address e-commerce as it is in Ruby and Python eco-system. Hopefully it can be like what Paul, the founder of YC said in his blog post "beating the averages. [1] "In Lisp, there are programs called macros. They are programs that write programs." [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

ktaylor 7y ago

Racket is a great language that needs more recognition. Thanks for posting your experiences.