[racket-dev] Racket home page proposal [and 1 more messages]

From: Marijn (hkBst at gentoo.org)
Date: Wed Jan 11 08:45:32 EST 2012

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On 22-12-11 10:02, Marijn wrote:
> On 21-12-11 18:57, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>> Since I'm talking, I might as well mention my personal opinion 
>>> on the strong points of racket (besides the (non-)obvious ones 
>>> of having advanced macros, first-class continuations and all
>>> that kind of stuff) since these might be worth mentioning on
>>> the front page: [...gui...] [...web-server...]
> 
>> Yeah, including these things would be good, if someone can
>> compose a similarly short and understandable and
>> not-too-buzz-wordy text out of them.
> 
> Right, so let's brainstorm a bit.
> 
> GUI: cross-platform native GUI library unified native GUI
> programming for Windows, OS X and Linux native cross-platform
> widgets cross-platform graphics cross-platform graphical library 
> that supports writing cross-platform native GUI applications
> 
> Web: continuation-enabled web server direct style web programming 
> direct style web programming with continuation-enabled web server 
> non-inverted web programming writing web applications as normal
> programs that let's you write web applications as normal programs 
> that let's you write web applications without inverting control
> flow
> 
> Racket: Racket is a unique general-purpose programming language
> with strong support for domain-specific languages, that enables you
> to do unified native GUI programming for Windows, OS X and Linux,
> and let's you write web applications without inverting control
> flow.
> 
> Who's next? ;P

I just saw that the homepage still just says that Racket is a
programming language...

Marijn
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