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When should one use Ohm over Racket?

• coldtea 6y ago
  When they want a library and toolkit for building parsers and languages, rather than a general programming language based on Scheme.
  • branneman 6y ago
    ... but racket basically exists to create parsers and languages. It happens to also be a general programming language. But so is JS nowadays with Node.
  • dunefox 6y ago
    So, I guess you don't know why OP specifically asked about Racket: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/dagstuhl19/ https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/dagstuhl19/ https://beautifulracket.com/stacker/why-make-languages.html https://beautifulracket.com/stacker/why-make-languages.html
    • coldtea 6y ago
      Nah, I know about Racket's DSL support and touting itself as friengly to language writing, but it's still not the same as a dedicated parsing toolkit, the same way I wouldn't consider a Lisp with reader macros equivalent either...