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>It's extremely easy to use, especially in the GUI department. You mean it's easy to build GUI desktop apps with Racket?

• rscho 3y ago
  Yes
• bmitc 3y ago
  It becomes very limited quite quickly though. One quickly has to move to the pasteboard editor functionality, where you basically have to recreate everything yourself in a canvas, as the normal buttons and other graphical elements are not supported inside a canvas since they are native OS widgets. I started trying to build a complex enough GUI and just quit. There are bugs and the documentation is extremely terse. You have to rely on blog posts by one developer who has sorted it all out, but it's still really difficult to get an explicit handle on the concepts and functionality. Very, very few people use the pasteboard editor for complex things or even simple things. You'll be forging a path of your own for sure.
  • rscho 3y ago
    The common sentiment is "if it's not used in DrRacket, you'll likely be on your own". That's more of a limitation due to the small community than a testament to the GUI framework quality itself, IMO.
    • bmitc 3y ago
      I found several bugs in the framework and gave up.