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Racket is so neat. I started learning it through How to Design Programs (https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html) an
by evandale 4y ago
Racket is so neat. I started learning it through How to Design Programs (https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html) and I was blown away you could paste pictures into the source and assign them to variables and draw them on the screen. I'm not sure why I'm surprised they have a while GUI framework too.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoI'm surprised how often I reach for racket just to check something out or explore an idea quickly. I've never taken anything too far with it but it's an incredible tool for that, and because it's so easy to implement languages in it most languages have an implementation in it. A couple weeks ago there was a burst of posts on HN about prolog, a language family I know nothing about. Took no time to spin up dr racket, find a prolog dialect in it, and play around. I probably do something like that with it every couple months. And yeah being able to easily visually output stuff from a new language without having to grapple with the tooling and output quirks of a new language takes so much of the initial friction out.
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