# Racket meet-up: Saturday, 5 April 2025

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-5-april-2025/3610>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** event, meet-up\
**Created:** [March 7, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-5-april-2025/3610 "2025-03-07T10:20:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-5-april-2025/3610/1 "2025-03-07T10:20:38Z")

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_ **Everyone is welcome** _ to join us for the :racket: **Racket meet-up** : Saturday, 5 April 2025 at 18:00 UTC

In your timezone: 2025-04-05T18:00:00Z. ([converter](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20250405T180000&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 (RacketCon is coming...)
- 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 😁

Stephen :beetle:

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```scheme
Everyone is welcome to join us for the Racket meet-up: Saturday, 5 April, 2025 at 18:00 UTC
Announcement at https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meet-up-saturday-5-april-2025/3610

EVERYONE WELCOME 😁

```

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For the benefit of everyone who attended and for the curiosity of others, here comes an unstructured list of links mentioned during the meet-up:

> **[Roguelike Celebration 2020](https://blog.roguetemple.com/2020/10/09/roguelike-celebration-2020/)**
>
> A report by slashie\_ On October 3 and 4 2020, the fifth iteration of the Roguelike Celebration happened online. Last year I missed it (flying Medellín to San Francisco is expensive!) but I had no e…

> **[spock - The CHICKEN Scheme wiki](https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/spock#introduction)**

SPOCK is a compiler and runtime system for translating most of R5RS  
Scheme into JavaScript. You can use it either by statically generating  
JavaScript files from Scheme source files or by translating  
s-expressions containing Scheme code on the fly. The compiler uses  
Henry Baker's Cheney-on-the-MTA compilation strategy.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/racket/original/2X/6/69fabae3c92f444c391cf961016954cb25d011f2.jpeg "Scheme implementation techniques (Felix Winkelmann) (boosted audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZp1wWivFYc)

> **[GitHub - racket/zuo: A tiny Racket for scripting](https://github.com/racket/zuo)**
>
> A tiny Racket for scripting

> **[GitHub - soegaard/cesky: Interpreter for a Racket-like language written in...](https://github.com/soegaard/cesky)**
>
> Interpreter for a Racket-like language written in JavaScript

A port of Zuo to JavaScript.

> **[Scheme Implementations](https://get.scheme.org/)**

> **[GitHub - ion-fusion/fusion-java: Ion Fusion is a programmable programming language...](https://github.com/ion-fusion/fusion-java)**
>
> Ion Fusion is a programmable programming language for working with JSON and Amazon Ion data.
