I've been using Racket for about 8 years now, and it is now my goto language for anything that needs a gui. It took writing 3 or 4 not-so-little guis to feel comfortable working with Racket's object system, but now it basically goes at the speed of thought.
Lately I've been using Racket to prototype the interaction design for a game, and I had written some placeholder text. I had put fake interpolation in for {player-name} and things like that, and then I realized that #lang at-exp would let me just ... do that, as described in the original article.
I had to laugh, because I maintain a bunch of Python code, and if Python has batteries included, Racket comes with a retrofittable fusion battery pack.
One other little anecdote, is that I've been porting an old plt-scheme codebase to Racket CS. In the second phase I have started replacing an ancient C++ rendering layer with the racket gui canvas functionality. During the process I moved hundreds of runtime type checks in the C/C++ layer to the Racket contract system. It was as if the Racket team had somehow secretly obtained access to the codebase I was working on and had designed the perfect abstractions to solve the problem.
Lately I've been using Racket to prototype the interaction design for a game, and I had written some placeholder text. I had put fake interpolation in for {player-name} and things like that, and then I realized that #lang at-exp would let me just ... do that, as described in the original article.
I had to laugh, because I maintain a bunch of Python code, and if Python has batteries included, Racket comes with a retrofittable fusion battery pack.
One other little anecdote, is that I've been porting an old plt-scheme codebase to Racket CS. In the second phase I have started replacing an ancient C++ rendering layer with the racket gui canvas functionality. During the process I moved hundreds of runtime type checks in the C/C++ layer to the Racket contract system. It was as if the Racket team had somehow secretly obtained access to the codebase I was working on and had designed the perfect abstractions to solve the problem.