# Racket Meetup: Saturday December 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** event\ **Created:** [November 14, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130 "2021-11-14T22:04:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **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:** [November 14, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/1 "2021-11-14T22:04:31Z")
Racket Meetup: Saturday December 4 2021-12-04T20:00:00Z Where: [https://gather.town/app/wH1EDG3McffLjrs0/racket-users](https://gather.town/app/wH1EDG3McffLjrs0/racket-users) When: First Saturday EVERY Month UTC: 20:00 (30 minutes but can overrun) The next meetup is - Pacific Time, PT Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 12:00 PST - Mountain Time, MT Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 13:00 MST - Central Time, CT Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 14:00 CST - Eastern Time, ET Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 15:00 EST - London, United Kingdom Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 20:00 GMT - Prague, Czechia Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 21:00 CET - Corresponding UTC Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 20:00 Time in your location: [conversion at timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211204T200000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_mt&p3=tz_ct&p4=tz_et&p5=136&p6=204) Calendar Links: - [Google calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FLondon) - [iCal](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/a6a7g9sg739gjfeak6ilkh8fdc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics) (.ics) ---
**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:** [December 4, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/2 "2021-12-04T11:58:55Z")
Racket meet-up today; > [@spdegabrielle](#): > > Racket Meetup: Saturday December 4 > Today 8:00 PM > > Where: [Gather](https://gather.town/app/wH1EDG3McffLjrs0/racket-users) 8pm UTC > [@spdegabrielle](#): > > Time in your location: [conversion at timeanddate.com](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20211204T200000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_mt&p3=tz_ct&p4=tz_et&p5=136&p6=204) ---
**Author:** ![dominik.pantucek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/dominik.pantucek/32/144_2.png) [@dominik.pantucek](https://racket.discourse.group/u/dominik.pantucek)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/3 "2021-12-05T12:10:03Z")
And as usual, the one who organized it, didn't show up 😉 But seriously - the meetups have been very interesting lately and maybe more people would find them informative. Yesterday we talked about: - idiomatic Clojure versus idiomatic Racket - particularly some interesting thoughts on mutations and immutability in general, - table rendering for larger data sets (yes, my uni-table is heading in that direction, but right now it just lacks the power and is definitely not lazy enough), - console/terminal REPL versus DrRacket REPL - it looks like even those of us who have a stronger preference one way actually use the other REPL pretty often and are interested in its capabilities, - contracts and their relation to relational database constrains and/or checks - with interesting discussion about SQLite usage implications for "gradual typing of table columns", - global state versus configuration, parameters versus continuation-passing style, objects and keeping state (of connections for example), - Knuth-Plass line breaking / paragraph justification and other approaches (fmt, simple breaks at whitespace), - Racket versus general Scheme (and other languages) communities ("versus" as in "comparing" not "against"!) - Discourse, Slack, Discord, Reddit, etc., All in all a very fruitful meeting if I may say. If I missed something you found important, please, fill-in the gaps I forgot to cover here 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/4 "2021-12-05T12:10:59Z")
> [@dominik.pantucek](#): > > And as usual, the one who organized it, didn't show up 😭 Thank you Dominik. ---
**Author:** ![sschwarzer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/sschwarzer/32/1940_2.png) [@sschwarzer](https://racket.discourse.group/u/sschwarzer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/5 "2021-12-05T12:23:08Z")
Wow, thanks for writing this summary of yesterday's topics! 🙂 👍 ---
**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-meetup-saturday-december-4/130/6 "2021-12-05T17:49:38Z")
Absolutely, many thanks for the summary: sounds like a lot of meaty topics!