Full Disclosure I created the post but it got more traction than I was expecting. I think some of the grievances about syntax definitely lend more credibility to the Rhombus project. I'd be curious to see what those people thing of the proposed syntaxes. Some of the critiques appear to be misunderst…

I don't have a Reddit, but someone should reply to https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/sr9k8g/comment/hws72mt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 with urlang, no?

I think the commenter is actually implicitly saying that Racket libs are not mature enough. There were many clearly erroneous takes on the topic. I am quite surprised by all the negativity surrounding the Racket community, that I find very much unjustified. Clearly I'm but a programming ant compare…

That whole thread seems to boil down to a handful of responses: I wasn't aware of Racket. I wanted to do everything myself because (that's part of the fun) or (because I believe Racket does not provide [essential thing X]). I don't like Lisp syntax. I don't want to learn new things. [essential th…

I personally would add: D. Dependencies E. Size small sizes / distributions / few dependencies While I love racket (maybe not unconditionally) that is one of the issues, I personally have with it currently — if I do everything myself — I can get my personal distribution of lang x to way lower siz…

I could have guessed some of the complaints, but I was surprised about how many people didn’t understand that the #lang could do more than DSLs and simple surface syntax changes. But part of the goal was getting more people to talk about and discover Racket, and with the amount of people and commen…

I agree. It is definitely a big ask to say “Hey if you want a great platform to develop languages we have it, but you have to learn an entirely new programming language first before you can use it” This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if Racket was as popular as Python or JavaScript, or was people…

[image] Decabytes: I was surprised about how many people didn’t understand that the #lang could do more than DSLs and simple surface syntax changes. Can you give some examples of what these other things are? Alex.

These are some of the quotes that jumped out to me. If all you want is alternative syntax for Racket programs, then use the #lang system. Racket's maybe useful for a first prototype, but not more than that. Well, Racket's languages aren't that great at implementing full scale programming lan…

I think the responses in that thread made some good points on the topic of lower-level languages. I wish it was easier to implement a #lang that ran on a different VM from the traditional Racket VM, so it could have a lot more control over low-level details like memory management and calling convent…

Isn’t targeting low level a use-case for GitHub - rjnw/sham: A DSL for runtime code generation in racket ? I think the repo mentions LLVM as a possible target? Stephen

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