RacketCon Is Saturday

(con.racket-lang.org)

116 points | by spdegabrielle 7 hours ago ago

7 comments

  • gus_massa 3 hours ago

    For the curious, there is an official YouTube channel with the previous editions https://www.youtube.com/@racketlang/playlists (It usually take a few months until the videos are edited and uploaded.)

  • dharmatech 5 hours ago

    I've been messing around with a language that I summarize as:

    ALOE = Scheme + Smalltalk + Types

    https://github.com/dharmatech/2026-09-02-aloe-racket

    Prototype is in Racket.

    • mike_ivanov 37 minutes ago

      Cool project, thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about something similar lately.

      However. "Send, not apply" - sigh.. how shall I put it.. let's try this - eyes_rolling_so_hard_they_fall_out_of_sockets.png

    • attila-lendvai an hour ago

      you lost me at the receiver selector order.

      • Jtsummers 33 minutes ago

        It's a common way to implement OO in Lisp-y languages, and it fits if you're taking Smalltalk as an inspiration. SICP has an example in chapter 3 (IIRC) of doing the same, but the selector had to be quoted as in:

          (my-account 'balance)
          (my-account 'withdraw 10)
    • agumonkey 5 hours ago

      quite elegant, feels like a great balance idiomatic scheme and OO

  • spdegabrielle 7 hours ago

    RacketCon is Saturday https://con.racket-lang.org