meet-up chat
18:24
me says:GitHub - galaxykate/tracery: Tracery: a story-grammar generation library for javascript
18:36
Julin
Julin says:I'm new to racket and was trying to figure out how to make DSL within racket. But am having troubling doing so. Beautiful racket was using its own constructs and I couldn't map them to the built-in stuff from the part of the book explaining it. Is using lex and yacc needed for writing DSLs? Or parser-tools? Are there any examples that one can refer to?
18:40
Joel
Joel says:Here's something I made after reading Beautiful Racket: GitHub - otherjoel/tabloid: 📰😱‼️ A Racket implementation of Tabloid, the clickbait programming language!
18:41
me says:syntax-spec: A Metalanguage for Hosted DSLs
18:43
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soegaard
soegaard says:"From br to racket/base" Beautiful Racket: From br to racket/base
18:44
me says:GitHub - michaelballantyne/syntax-spec: A metalanguage for creating sophisticated DSLs in Racket.
18:44
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soegaard
soegaard says:You can choose your own parser. The parser brag is an extension of ragg.
18:44
soegaard says:The parser ragg uses parser-tools internally.
18:45
Joel
Joel says:The chapter that @soegaard linked above seems most relevent to your question
18:46
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soegaard
soegaard says:Stephen makes a good point. A good place to start is to write the DSL as a macro. Then one can wrap it in a language with custom syntax afterwards.
18:48
soegaard says:So I would look at macros as step one.
18:48
soegaard says:https://craftinginterpreters.com/
18:49
Joel
Joel says:Will your DSL have S-expression syntax?
18:51
Julin
Julin says:Is big bang a game?
18:51
Julin says:Yeah I'm aiming for S-expr
18:51
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soegaard
soegaard says:Matthew's text adventure as a DSL. http://ece.uprm.edu/~wrivera/ICOM4036/Paper1.pdf
18:52
me says:2.4 Worlds and the Universe: "universe.rkt"
18:52
Joel
Joel says:Beautiful Racket is great but it's kind of the "long way" if you only need s-expression syntax
18:52
Julin
Julin says:I wanted to start small. 
18:53
Joel
Joel says:I would read syntax-parse and Fear of Macros. If you only need s-expressions then Racket's built-in reader and parser will do all that stuff for you
18:54
Joel says:Fear of Macros
18:54
me says:I once suggested adding opentelemetry and I feel I was lucky I was not tarred and feathered
18:56
me says:Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System
18:57
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soegaard
soegaard says:Postcardware: True Or False Beerware And Postcardware Are Not Licensed Software
18:57
Joel
Joel says:Qi: An Embeddable Flow-Oriented Language
19:03
Levon
Levon says:Threading and Function Composition selfpromotion
19:04
Joel
Joel says:Levon I'm glad you stuck with the racoon
19:05
harryisgamer
harryisgamer says:crates.io: Rust Package Registry
19:08
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soegaard
soegaard says:I sometimes runs this query on Github to see new uses. I think, the search results were better a couple of years ago. Code search results · GitHub
19:09
soegaard says:At the left there is a list of repositories that contains "metapict".
19:09
me says:"Transparent Telemetry"
19:13
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soegaard
soegaard says:GitHub - racket/racket-pkg-website: A frontend for the Racket Package Catalog.
19:14
Julin
Julin says:What package is just mentioned? punkt?
19:19
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soegaard
soegaard says:GitHub - otherjoel/punct: ⏺✍️ Write in Markdown+Racket, publish to multiple formats
19:19
harryisgamer
harryisgamer says:xkcd: Dependency
19:23
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soegaard
soegaard says:A fun listen: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator With Yann Collet - CoRecursive Podcast It's an interview with Yann Collet which writes compression libraries. It touches the subject of attribution for foundational libraries.
19:28
Joel
Joel says:Have to feed and water the kids, thanks all
19:43
me says:GitHub - rust-lang/rfcs: RFCs for changes to Rust
19:43
me says:package spliting Oh My!
Racket meet-up: Saturday, 1 March 2025 at 18:00 UTC
