Anton, Vishesh Yadav has been doing some pretty cool things with Whalesong lately, notably to make program sharing easier[1].
Vishesh will be speaking about this work at RacketCon on the 27th. If you can't join us in person, the talk will also be streamed live and recorded. Vincent [1] https://github.com/vishesh/whalebin On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 23:08:10 -0500, Anton Vodonosov wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone use Whalesong to script web pages? > > As far as I understand the Racket design, Whalesong is enough to bootstrap > full Racket in a JS environment. It's a great opportunity. I would like very > much to have an interactive lisp development where I can develop both server > side and client side code, and to share code between client and server. > > I wish to connect to a web page JS environment interactively (like from SLIME > I use for with Common Lisp) and control and modify my program without > reloading the page. > > Javascript console in browsers is a substitution, but a poor-man's one, and > it's only Javascript; it would be grate to have it for lisp. > > People are now inventing WebAssembly to simplify porting programmign > languages to javascript. ClojureScript was just recently made self hosted. > > But Whalesong exists for years. Why no-one uses it? Is it not enough to > bootstrap a Racket compiler? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
