[racket] News flash! Racket once again a legal choice for developing iPhone apps!

It worked ok, but I never used it to make apps.
Ive not tried, but I suspect the real work is making a racket
library/interface for the ui stuff.

S

On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com> wrote:
> How well did it work? I've been playing with Chicken to write Maemo
> code, which seems to work pretty well, but I figured Racket would be
> pretty heavy for a mobile device.
>
> martin
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle
> <stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
>> FWIW
>> I once used scratchbox to cross compile mzscheme to arm
>>
>> -wikipedia, from Maemo page ->
>> The Maemo SDK is based around the Debian-oriented Scratchbox Cross
>> Compilation Toolkit, which provides a sandbox environment in which
>> development may take place. Scratchbox uses Qemu to emulate an ARM
>> processor or sbrsh to remotely execute instructions.
>> Scratchbox-compatible rootstraps are available for both x86 and ARM,
>> so the majority of development and debugging takes place on x86, with
>> final packaging being for ARM
>> --
>>
>> On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>> On Sep 15, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>>>> Regarding Racket building for ARM, when you need to build it often
>>>> but ARM is relatively slow... I wonder how much work to get
>>>> cross-compile of the Racket toolset working.
>>>
>>> Even if the C core part is cross compiled (there's more stuff in the
>>> collections), the main point is compiling and running the files on the
>>> machine, so cross compilation (if possible) will certainly speed
>>> things up, but will not make it a less-effective testing tool.
>>>
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