[racket-users] typed racket backend/ir & gpu computing

2018-12-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Is there a specified/stable Typed Racket intermediate representation that has all the type info resolved, and which separate projects could build upon, for other target backends or analysis? Reason for asking... I was idly thinking of various ways to do GPU/TPU "supercomputing" from a normal

Re: [racket-users] Re: hackernews

2018-12-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
This piece by Danny Hillis (which I just happened to cite on a very different topic) is an easy read, and perhaps inspirational on the value of explanation and cross-pollination, such as one might do when bridging communities of interest, with popular forum participation and blogs: http://long

Re: [racket-users] off-topic: SQLite

2018-12-15 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
cf. Relevant tweet from Patrick Walton (I worked with Patrick on Rust at Mozilla): https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1073755208558100480 > On Dec 15, 2018, at 13:52, George Neuner wrote: > > > This hit the news yesterday: SQLite contained a remote code execution bug. > According to the Z

[racket-users] Are contracts incompatible with Typed Racket?

2018-12-15 Thread jtherrmann
I recently started learning Racket and quickly switched to Typed Racket. For the most part I've been very happy with it, but I'm unclear on whether it's possible to create contracts in Typed Racket (for expressing constraints other than type requirements). I've been unable to find an explicit a

[racket-users] off-topic: SQLite

2018-12-15 Thread George Neuner
This hit the news yesterday:  SQLite contained a remote code execution bug.  According to the ZDNet article the bug has been fixed as  of  v3.26.0 released December 1st.  If your application uses SQLite, you probably should update it.   Hopefully the Racket maintainers will update the library

[racket-users] Re: hackernews

2018-12-15 Thread Jason Stewart
> > RFB is a wonderful idea. Aside from the main site, there is a lot of catching-up to do (quantity-wise anyway) compared to something like JavaScript or Ruby. > I'm not sure if HN even matters if there are enough good blog posts out there. Search does a decent job of getting people to thos

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-15 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
I’m probably guilty of already being part of this task-force. To add, I wonder if there’d be value in some longer, blog-form replies to interesting HackerNews queries. For example, someone was extolling the virtues of some new system for building and packaging simple GUI apps for Linux using Py

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-15 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Den fre. 14. dec. 2018 kl. 00.53 skrev Neil Van Dyke : > This might be a bad idea, and normally I disapprove of this sort of > thing, but... does anyone want to take on the job of RACKET EVANGELISM > STRIKE FORCE, among a concentration of startup-types and other software > practitioners? > > Speci