[racket] [The Racket Blog] New comment on Racket.

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Jun 19 01:50:53 EDT 2010

On Jun 18, David Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:00:29PM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >
> >Last time I tried a build on an Arm machine, it went through fine,
> >including the gui.
> 
> I'm not sure what Apple's userspace environment is like, since I
> can't see it, but at least for Android, there would probably be a
> good amount of work to port Racket to even a compiled app.  The C
> library present is kind of hand crafted just to meet the needs of
> Android and is missing a lot of stuff.  Gui stuff would have to be
> ported to the Android-specific GUI library.

The machine I was trying it on was (IIRC) a plain ubuntu setup,
nothing as different or as limited as a phone.

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