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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
