[racket] Racket in the large

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 24 20:36:23 EDT 2011

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:26 PM, gonzalo diethelm <gdiethelm at dcv.cl> wrote:
>> Why would I write C code when I could write Racket code? These are
>> currently done using Racket and, when necessary, FFI bindings.
>
> I am a noob regarding FFI, so I don't know what must be done in C and what can be done in Racket. C is the usual way to go for this kind of thing in other languages.
>

Racket's FFI is very cool. You can really do a lot in Racket proper
because of the way it works.

One big, fairly recent example:

  http://blog.racket-lang.org/2010/12/racket-version-5.html

Robby


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