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by aufreak3 4697 days ago
(wave)

Some years ago though. Wrote the "style browser" stand-alone application in DrScheme. Damn! Feeling nostalgic about Scheme as I browse through some old code :)

https://code.google.com/p/muvee-style-authoring/

If you're looking to dabble in Racket and are looking for pet project ideas, here is one I've had in mind for years --

Make a "browser"!

By that I don't mean make something that renders HTML/CSS, runs JavaScript, etc. Instead, make a browser whose "HTML page" is actually a Racket program that loads off a http URL and runs in the "browser"'s window. racket/sandbox is a candidate for sandboxing these runs. Give the script access to drawing on the window, making a sound, limited file system access, etc over time. A standard http server can serve these files, but something extra fun would be a server that also runs Racket that you can use s-expressions to communicate with (bye bye JSON).

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wow, that's a pretty cool idea. I would be very interested in seeing a project like this kick off