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by marshray 4697 days ago
Just prototyping? Is the plan to throw it out and use something else for production? Why?
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nickmain 4697 days ago
The target platforms are iPad, Android Tablets and Web - so Racket cannot be the runtime platform without a lot of tangential work.

I'm hoping that the prototyping can lead to Racket being the tools and authoring platform.

Racket is a great environment for developing DSLs and graphical tools.

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gcr 4697 days ago
Just as an aside, are you aware of Whalesong?

http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/

It's a Javascript VM that interprets Racket bytecode. It's complete enough to run, eg. World/Universe games or render HTDP2e pictures. Might be useful for some of what you're doing.

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nickmain 4697 days ago
Thanks - yes I was aware.

I thought that Whalesong was a Javascript code generator rather than a VM ?

Unfortunately JS performance on iOS rules that out for our purposes.

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