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The bottom line is: 1) DrRacket consumes 0.7 GB od RAM for very little functionality, in comparison to Visual Studio 2) The performace was even worse but than
by dytyramb 4y ago
The bottom line is:
1) DrRacket consumes 0.7 GB od RAM for very little functionality, in comparison to Visual Studio
2) The performace was even worse but than Racket core team switched to excelent Chez scheme, being unable to produce such a quality compiler
3) If by any chance DrRacket was written in C, it would consume 300Kb of max memory, considering how little functionality this `development environment` has
4) I admire Kent Dybvig, I adore Marc Feeley, I love Mark Tarver. They all did really great things. But this team of the Racket really deserves more contempt than admiration (for details see this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c)
- michaelmrose 4y agoMark Tarver seems to have interesting ideas but produce interesting things with no market, no user base, no community, no tooling, no libraries, no ebooks,no entry level book at all because the sole book is his weighty tome at $120 because his tools are commercial products completing with free. If it were considerably better it would still be a considerably worse choice for all the reasons above. It's a case study in what not to do. Incidentally you should keep your contempt to yourself.
- terrens 4y agoIn fact, Tarver's book is free to read online: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_15.html https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_15.html And It's so nicely written, better than anything PLT could produce. Go read it, and you'll see.
- michaelmrose 4y agoThank you. I hadn't realized that the 4th edition was now free to read online but this isn't exactly the gotcha moment you imagine. It was recently made free 8 months ago in a blurry unpleasant to read format a decade after the language launched after everyone else ate their lunch.