Thanks for the quick reply. My goal is to make Racket more relevant for general engineering and application development.
For example, I asked my scientist brother why he's using Python instead of Racket on his next project. His response: "but would I have to write my own routines for calculating mahalanobis distance, or jensen-shannon entropy with bootstrap correction?" Apologies for any confusion. Eric On Wed, Oct 11, 2017, 1:30 PM William J. Bowman <w...@williamjbowman.com> wrote: > Eric, > > I don’t mean to inadvertently kill any conversations, but I wanted to > point out that there is an existing list of Racket projects on the Racket > GitHub wiki: > https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects > > It hasn’t seen an update in a while, so some of those may be solved or > have others working on them, but if you’re looking for projects I’d start > by looking there. > > — > William J. Bowman > > > On Oct 11, 2017, at 10:12 PM, Eric Griffis <ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Eric and I love Racket. > > > > I am 39 years old and have been writing software for 30 years. I studied > metaprogramming and taught programming languages as a grad student. My sole > academic publication is on semantics and provenance for distributed data > science tools. These days, I teach elementary school kids why and how to > care about "coding," which means so much more than just banging out text. > > > > Racket is special to me because it makes programming fun again. When > it's time to get real work done, I want more people to reach for Racket > first. This is my goal, so I'm making this call for projects or project > ideas as a conversation starter. > > > > Does a killer app or library sorely need a Racket alternative? > > > > Do you dread certain tasks that have you reaching for Python or > JavaScript, or worse? > > > > Is your professional community holding out on adopting Racket, and do > you know why? > > > > Any amazing projects pitched at the conference? > > > > I enjoyed following the graph drawing thread a few weeks ago. A serious > attempt at "better than graphviz" could be fun and worthwhile. > > > > Eric > > > > -- > > 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.
