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by slmyers 3367 days ago
> 17.an amazing IDE - it has a tool to debug macros!

This may be true for an experienced user, but I've mainly used VS Code/Atom/Sublime etc, and I did not enjoy DrRacket -- I'm assuming that's what you're talking about. Some of the dropdown menus didn't render for me, and while this may sound stupid, I had the damnedest time figuring out that half my screen was a REPL and the other half a file.
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peatmoss 3367 days ago
How long ago did you try it / what platform are you running on? It was a few years ago now, but they rewrote the GUI libs to be native rather than whatever x-platform lib they used. DrRacket seemed to get... better then.

I mostly use emacs, but was playing with paredit for DrRacket with emacs keybindings the other day and decided that I could get to like some of the other creature comforts of DrRacket.

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