(seventh RacketCon)
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racketeers, (seventh RacketCon) will be held on October 7th, followed by Racketeer Office Hours on October 8th. This year, RacketCon will be in Seattle, WA, with support...
View ArticleRacket v6.8
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.8 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket sports a new logo, courtesy of Matthew Butterick. MacBook Pro laptops with touch bars are supported....
View ArticleOn Application
posted by Jack Firth Today I wanted to write about function application. Specifically, how to redefine and customize application with Racket. We’ll also look at some Racket packages that define...
View ArticleLanguages as Dotfiles
posted by Leif Andersen and Ben Greenman Tired of writing (require (for-syntax syntax/parse)) at the top of your Racket programs? This post shows how to make a #lang to customize your default...
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Type Tailoring
posted by Ben Greenman Type tailoring is a technique for adding domain-specific type checkers to a typed host language. Using the Type Systems as Macros approach to building typed languages,...
View ArticleRacket v6.9
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.9 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Security Announcement A security vulnerability in the racket/sandbox library and Typed Racket allowed...
View ArticleRacket v6.10
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.10 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Note: Graphical Racket programs such as DrRacket are affected by a bug in the Windows 10 Creators update...
View ArticleRacket v6.10.1
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.10.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Version 6.10.1 patches the recent v6.10 release in three small ways: On Linux, corrects a mishandling of...
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Tutorial: Contributing to Racket
posted by Ben Greenman, with help from Matthew Butterick and Robby Findler and Jack Firth and Vincent St-Amour and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt This post describes 3 ways to contribute to Racket: (1) fixing a...
View ArticleTutorial: Creating a Package
posted by Stephen Chang This post is a summary of a tutorial presented at RacketCon 2017. It describes how to create a package starting from a single Racket file. Specifically, this post explains how...
View ArticleRacket v6.11
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.11 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ A bug preventing OneDrive users on Windows 10 Fall Creators update from opening files has been fixed. Typed...
View ArticleRefinement Types in Typed Racket
posted by Andrew Kent With the Racket v6.11 release, Typed Racket has begun to support basic refinement and dependent function types. This post gives an overview for working with these types while...
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Racket-on-Chez Status: January 2018
posted by Matthew Flatt with thanks to collaborators Kent Dybvig, Andy Keep, Gustavo Massaccesi, Sarah Spall, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Jon Zeppieri It’s been almost a year since we decided to try...
View ArticleRacket v6.12
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 6.12 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Changed the way some unsafe operations are exposed via ffi/unsafe libraries to help smooth a future...
View ArticleRacket v7.0
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 7.0 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket version 7.0 includes substantial internal changes toward the long-term goal of replacing Racket’s...
View ArticleRacket v7.1
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 7.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Although it is still not part of this release, the development of Racket on Chez Scheme continues. We still...
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Racket-on-Chez Status: January 2019
posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, last January’s report, and the report at Scheme Workshop 2018. Racket...
View ArticleRacket v7.2
posted by Vincent St-Amour Racket version 7.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez is done in a useful sense, but we’ll wait until it gets better before making it the default...
View ArticleRacket v7.3
posted by John Clements Racket version 7.3 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez continues to improve. Snapshot builds are currently available at pre.racket-lang.org, and we...
View ArticleRacket v7.4
posted by John Clements Racket version 7.4 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ With this 7.4 release, we are making Racket CS available, a beta version of the Racket on Chez Scheme...
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