[racket-users] Racket v7.4

2019-08-08 Thread 'John Clements' via users-redirect
Racket version 7.4 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/ With this 7.4 release, we are making Racket CS available, a beta version of the Racket on Chez Scheme implementation. Racket CS is "beta" quality for the v7.4 release. It works well enough to be worth trying, but there are lik

[racket-users] GitHub ‘template repository’ functionality

2019-08-08 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, GitHub recently introduced a ‘template repository’ functionality https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-template-repository I’ve created a draft of a Racket version and would appreciate your feedback. draft template repo: https://github.com/spdegabrielle/racket-package ‘generate’ lin

Re: [racket-users] tip for promoting racket on yc hacker news

2019-08-08 Thread Neil Van Dyke
This is a good writeup on HN: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news -- 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,

Re: [racket-users] Re: Do custodians shutdown when Racket exits?

2019-08-08 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 21:15, George Neuner wrote: > Sockets belonging to the crashed program are in a "half-closed" state - > unable to send, but still able to receive. If you look in netstat you'll > find their status is stuck in TIME_WAIT or in SYN or SYN/ACK. There is a > delay in cleaning u

Re: [racket-users] Re: Alternative UI toolkits

2019-08-08 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 8/7/19 5:10 PM: Mathematica uses QT! There's a lot in Qt, just like there's a lot in GTK.  Occasionally, a noteworthy project goes to a lot of trouble to switch from one to the other (e.g., Wireshark). Thankfully, Racket has meant I mostly don't have to pick GU