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by samth 5y ago
By the way, we'd be interested to hear how your deployment is going, what versions you're using, etc. Feel free to drop me or Matthew a line anytime.
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by samth 5y ago
gus_massa knows this, but building Racket from source (which is basically just running a lot of Racket code) is now faster with Racket CS than with Racket BC.
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by samth 5y ago
Suicides were down in 2020 in the US. Australia had long and strict lockdowns, so has Vietnam. But they have negative excess deaths in 2020. There's no evidence whatsoever that lockdowns increased deaths, with the possible exception of
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by samth 5y ago
It is not yet, and while some people working on Wasm think they will eventually accomplish this, there's not that much evidence that it will happen.
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Demoing the Pernosco Omniscient Debugger: Debugging Crashes in Node.js and GDB(robert.ocallahan.org)
2 points by samth 5y ago|0 comments
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by samth 6y ago
Are you saying the examples in the book are insufficiently real-world (ie, they should be more like creating websites and less like Tetris [ https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/part_two.html#%28part._sec~3a... ] or XML [
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by samth 6y ago
The most recent proposal is https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming/pull/122
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by samth 6y ago
Yes, I think the `xml` library in Racket is quite nice for generating XML and XML-like content: https://docs.racket-lang.org/xml/
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Racket Performance Improvement over 17 years(gist.github.com)
4 points by samth 6y ago|0 comments
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by samth 6y ago
Which topics are taboo? That documentation is good? Or that academic use and industry use are different? Those topics are well discussed in the community. On the other hand, negative ranting about how everyone is wasting their time, how par
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by samth 6y ago
Paulo Matos is working on a RISC-V backend. Wasm would be very nice to have; I think compile-to-web is a big missing piece although there are potentially other ways to do it. For Graal I think a direct implementation would be nice. Compilin
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by samth 6y ago
You might be interested in https://docs.racket-lang.org/xiden-guide/index.html (Sage also gave a talk at RacketCon 2020 about it).
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by samth 6y ago
eval works very similarly to how it worked before -- when you eval some code it compiled it and then runs it. Every* Scheme or Lisp system supports this kind of compilation-at-runtime, and Chez is no exception.
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by samth 6y ago
We (mostly Matthew) have opened plenty of pull requests, although not for the most recent changes since they rely on earlier ones that are not merged. The Chez maintainers move at a deliberate pace, and don't necessarily share all the
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by samth 6y ago
Redox is cited in their OSDI paper. Basically they have a bunch of new ideas for writing an OS that are implemented here; Redox is only similar because they're both in Rust.
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by samth 6y ago
I don't think that's true -- we're discussing a language that was invented relatively recently and has sexpressions. It's just that if a language has lots of parentheses, it gets classified as a lisp.
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by samth 6y ago
This is similar to saying that instruments "hide the underlying physical objects". That's certainly true in a sense, but also not a helpful point -- we can't see stars or proteins or quarks without instruments. And we ca
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by samth 6y ago
A useful counterpoint: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/dijkstras-truth...
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by samth 6y ago
While most POPL papers do contain some formalism, your description is strikes me as out of date, even for POPL.
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by samth 6y ago
Can you point to where this bug report was? I'll take a look at what happened.
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by samth 6y ago
1. The big performance issues early on were compilation speed -- Racket had a simple JIT compiler that ran almost instantly. 2. Some rewritten parts of the system, such as IO, were initially slower, but have now been improved to catch up to
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by samth 6y ago
The main implementors of Racket and Chez Scheme (Matthew Flatt and Kent Dybvig) were part of the committee that created the R6RS, and many of the ideas in R6RS came from Racket and Chez. Whether R6RS was "widely rejected" is of co
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by samth 6y ago
Job heterogeneity doesn't distinguish these situations nearly that much. The relevant comparison between academia and McDonald's is probably between regular employee and store manager/PhD Student and professor. In both cases
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by samth 6y ago
This is one of many confused articles based on Venkatesh's research. The point of the original work is that drug gangs, despite being criminal organizations, have a ladder hierarchy and low wages at the bottom, just like many other &qu
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by samth 6y ago
The GSS spends (according to Shor) $1000 per response. It's not at all similar to the "polls that were wrong" in the election.
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by samth 6y ago
Sadly this article doesn't actually answer the question, but there was a great New Yorker article in 2018 that did: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams...
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by samth 6y ago
Beautiful Racket is good if you want to book on building languages in Racket: https://beautifulracket.com/
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by samth 6y ago
No, this is not correct. The split long predates async in JS The fundamental reason behind the difference between ES modules and CJS is that require() does synchronous I/O in a function, but that's not acceptable in the browser c
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by samth 6y ago
You might be interested in Bogdan Popa's new Racksnaps work: https://defn.io/2020/05/03/ann-racksnaps/ or Sage Gerard's new work on zcpkg: https://github.com/zyrolasting/zc
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Racket 7.8(blog.racket-lang.org)
171 points by samth 6y ago|30 comments

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