# Racket meet-up: Saturday, 1 March 2025 at 18:00 UTC **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** event, meet-up\ **Created:** [February 26, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-march-2025-at-18-00-utc/3591 "2025-02-26T20:50:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-march-2025-at-18-00-utc/3591/1 "2025-02-26T20:50:47Z")
_ **Everyone is welcome** _ to join us for the :racket: **Racket meet-up** : Saturday, 1 March 2025 at 18:00 UTC In your timezone: 2025-03-01T18:00:00Z. ([converter](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20250301T180000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_mt&p3=tz_ct&p4=tz_et&p5=136&p6=204&p7=241)) At this meet-up: - RacketCon2025 - [Book Club Reading/Discussing "How To Design Programs"](https://racket.discourse.group/t/book-club-reading-discussing-how-to-design-programs/3435) (thank you @OldDutchCap for organising this) - Show and tell - News & rumours - AOB This meet-up will be held at [https://meet.jit.si/Racketmeet-up](https://meet.jit.si/Racketmeet-up) _Racket meet-ups are on the first Saturday of EVERY Month at 18:00 UTC_ > [@dominik.pantucek](#): > > And remember - showing up at Racket Meetups helps you learn the news of the Racket world as they happen! It is informative, it is interesting, it is helpful, it is greatly appreciated by everyone involved and it is fun! 30 minutes but can overrun (it usually lasts ~1hr) EVERYONE WELCOME ๐Ÿ˜ Stephen :beetle: * * * Spread the word! Share this announcement on social media: ```scheme Everyone is welcome to join us for the Racket meet-up: Saturday, 1 March, 2025 at 18:00 UTC Announcement at https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-march-2025-at-18-00-utc/3591 EVERYONE WELCOME ๐Ÿ˜ ``` Meet-up announcements are tagged #meet-up RSS: [Racket Discourse - Topics tagged meet-up](https://racket.discourse.group/tag/meet-up.rss) * * * [![Racket Discourse](https://img.shields.io/discourse/users?label=Discuss%20on%20Racket%20Discourse&logo=racket&server=https%3A%2F%2Fracket.discourse.group)](https://racket.discourse.group/invites/VxkBcXY7yL) [![Racket Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/571040468092321801?label=Chat%20on%20Racket%20Discord&logo=racket)](https://discord.gg/6Zq8sH5) [![Mastodon Follow](https://img.shields.io/mastodon/follow/110503403357821549?domain=https%3A%2F%2Ffunctional.cafe&logo=racket&label=@racketlang@functional.cafe)](https://functional.cafe/@racketlang) [![Follow Racket on Bluesky](https://img.shields.io/badge/Bluesky-0285FF?logo=bluesky&logoColor=fff&label=Racket%20on&color=0285FF)](https://bsky.app/profile/racket-lang.org) [Racket Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com) https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com&rm=minimal ---
**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-1-march-2025-at-18-00-utc/3591/2 "2025-03-01T19:45:41Z")
meet-up chat > **[Teach Yourself Racket](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flaneries/TYR/)** 18:24 me says:[GitHub - galaxykate/tracery: Tracery: a story-grammar generation library for javascript](https://github.com/galaxykate/tracery) 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: ๐Ÿ“ฐ๐Ÿ˜ฑโ€ผ๏ธ A Racket implementation of Tabloid, the clickbait programming language!](https://github.com/otherjoel/tabloid) ๐Ÿ‘ 18:41 me says:[syntax-spec: A Metalanguage for Hosted DSLs](https://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax-spec-v2/index.html) 18:43 S soegaard soegaard says:"From br to racket/base" [Beautiful Racket: From br to racket/base](https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/from-br-to-racket-base.html) 18:44 me says:[GitHub - michaelballantyne/syntax-spec: A metalanguage for creating sophisticated DSLs in Racket.](https://github.com/michaelballantyne/syntax-spec) 18:44 S 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 S 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/](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 S soegaard soegaard says:Matthew's text adventure as a DSL. [http://ece.uprm.edu/~wrivera/ICOM4036/Paper1.pdf](http://ece.uprm.edu/~wrivera/ICOM4036/Paper1.pdf) 18:52 me says:[2.4 Worlds and the Universe: "universe.rkt"](https://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpuniverse.html) 18:52 Joel Joel says:Beautiful Racket is great but it's kind of the "long way" if you only need s-expression syntax ๐Ÿ‘ 18:52 Julin Julin says:I wanted to start small. ๐Ÿ˜„ 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](https://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/all.html) 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](https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) 18:57 S soegaard soegaard says:Postcardware: [True Or False Beerware And Postcardware Are Not Licensed Software](https://ms.codes/blogs/software-licensing/true-or-false-beerware-and-postcardware-are-not-licensed-software) โค๐Ÿ‘ 18:57 Joel Joel says:[Qi: An Embeddable Flow-Oriented Language](https://docs.racket-lang.org/qi/index.html) 19:03 Levon Levon says:[Threading and Function Composition](https://racket-raccoon.github.io/threading/) selfpromotion 19:04 Joel Joel says:Levon I'm glad you stuck with the racoon ๐Ÿ‘ 19:05 harryisgamer harryisgamer says:[crates.io: Rust Package Registry](https://crates.io/crates/syn) 19:08 S 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 ยท GitHub](https://github.com/search?q=language%3Aracket+metapict&type=code) 19:09 soegaard says:At the left there is a list of repositories that contains "metapict". 19:09 me says:["Transparent Telemetry"](https://racket.discourse.group/t/transparent-telemetry/1760) 19:13 S soegaard soegaard says:[GitHub - racket/racket-pkg-website: A frontend for the Racket Package Catalog.](https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website) โค๐Ÿ”ฅ 19:14 Julin Julin says:What package is just mentioned? punkt? 19:19 S soegaard soegaard says:[GitHub - otherjoel/punct: โบโœ๏ธ Write in Markdown+Racket, publish to multiple formats](https://github.com/otherjoel/punct) ๐Ÿ‘ 19:19 harryisgamer harryisgamer says:[xkcd: Dependency](https://xkcd.com/2347/) 19:23 S soegaard soegaard says:A fun listen: [From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator With Yann Collet - CoRecursive Podcast](https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/) 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](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs) 19:43 me says:package spliting Oh My!