In the documentation, would it be a good idea to discourage the use of C
extensions and embedding of Racket (in the old Inside MzScheme senses of
"extension" and "embedding")?
I have been discouraging their use for a few years now. I think they
made more sense when mzscheme was smaller, was slower, used the CGC, and
did not have an FFI. Today, extensions and embedding seem like a last
resort, when one has ruled out all other approaches.
This seems like one of those things that is likely to derail potential
new Racket adopters: they pick a poor approach that initially (according
to documentation) seems viable, they run into difficulty, and they might
give up on the entire platform.
Or, if extensions and/or embedding work better today than I thought they
do, then my mistake, and I withdraw the suggestion.
Neil V.
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