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UK Racket meet-up (London) Tuesday 17 March 7:30pm at The City Pride

spdegabrielle — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:52:43 +0000

# UK Racket meet-up Tuesday 17 March 7:30pm at The City Pride 28 Farringdon Ln, London EC1R 3AU https://racket.discourse.group/t/uk-racket-meet-up-london-17-march-2026/4113 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-racket-meet-up-tickets-1983405946578

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411972

Points: 2

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New comment by spdegabrielle in "Rackup, a Toolchain Manager for Racket"

spdegabrielle — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:26:34 +0000

Awesome! Just tried it on macOS

`rackup install snapshot` got me straight to the latest nightly snapshot from https://snapshot.racket-lang.org/

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket 9.1 is now available"

spdegabrielle — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:18:43 +0000

Racket - the Language-Oriented Programming Language - version 9.1 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org

See https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/02/racket-v9-1.html for the release announcement and highlights.

Racket 9.1 is now available

spdegabrielle — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:18:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/02/racket-v9-1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47134338

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by spdegabrielle in "SQLite as an Application File Format"

spdegabrielle — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:23:51 +0000

I think the developers had the same idea https://fossil-scm.org/

New comment by spdegabrielle in "SQLite as an Application File Format"

spdegabrielle — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:15:09 +0000

Is there a software solution to mounting any DB as a filesystem?

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket v9.0"

spdegabrielle — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:15:37 +0000

Racket of course!

More seriously, there is no one ‘best lisp’.

What you use depends on the needs of the project. That might mean Racket, Guile, Clojure, SBCL or something else. It all depends on what you need to do.

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket v9.0"

spdegabrielle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:21:17 +0000

This is addressed in the blog post linked from the release announcement: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/11/parallel-threads.html

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket v9.0"

spdegabrielle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:17:17 +0000

The IDE is not the language.

Racket has good support in VSCode (via magic Racket and the Racket langserver), Emacs (Racket Mode) and Vim. https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/9.0/doc/guide/othe...

The Racket Langserver obviously enables use in other editors that support the LSP. https://github.com/jeapostrophe/racket-langserver For editors that lack LSP support, scheme support is generally sufficient.

All that aside, DrRacket the IDE has some nice features that just don't exist in other editors. I don't know of another IDE that has an integrated macro stepper.

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket v9.0"

spdegabrielle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:07:43 +0000

That's a good question.

The education tooling is all optional (so their only impact is perceptual) DrRacket, teaching languages, and supporting libraries are all optional. (see Minimal Racket - just the compiler and package manager https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/9.0/#:~:text=SHA25... )

I'd like to know what tooling is missing from Racket that is available in major general purpose languages like C#, Java, or Common Lisp implementations?

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket v9.0"

spdegabrielle — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:47:56 +0000

The developers spoke at RacketCon this year https://youtu.be/7Twlh-Opq5E?si=JkWxLib8HTnjVjPI

New comment by spdegabrielle in "RacketCon (fifteenth) October 4-5, 2025"

spdegabrielle — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

I really need to try ‘syntax-spec’ and Rosette.

Tree versus DAG Bindings

spdegabrielle — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:28:05 +0000

Article URL: https://trustica.cz/en/blog/2025/07/17/tree-versus-dag-bindings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596482

Points: 5

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New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available"

spdegabrielle — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:05:39 +0000

Don’t forget to run `raco pkg migrate 8.16`

New comment by spdegabrielle in "Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available"

spdegabrielle — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:01:31 +0000

Racket — the Language-Oriented Programming Language — version 8.17 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org See https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/05/racket-v8-17.html for the release announcement and highlights.