[racket] An elm-like racket language?

I think the core stuff will continue to work fine; I imagine the GUI
bindings have ossified by now.

You may actually find it useful to look at some of the examples on the
Flapjax site (www.flapjax-lang.org). There, we were actively trying to
convey an idea to a community that thought didn't think that way.
FrTime was written for Schemers, the first cousins of functional
programmers, so we didn't think we needed to explain much. (Though
there are still some interesting demos in the distro.)

The one thing I wish we'd done was figured out a really, really clean
way to have just a part of the program be reactive, and the rest of it
be normal. We talked about this, and at some point Greg even
implemented a macro that let you "inject reactivity" into an
expression (so to speak). I don't know it's status. It's a question
I'm starting to reopen in my head in Pyret.

Shriram

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Philip Monk <pcmonk at asu.edu> wrote:
> I've been interested in FRP for a while, but I haven't yet found a way to
> learn it, and I'm thinking FrTime might be a good way.  I'm the kind of guy
> who learns stuff best by integrating them into my projects, and I'm working
> on a project in Racket right now that seems like it could benefit.  How hard
> would it be to integrate frtime into an existing project?  I assume that I
> would create most of my own signals and whatnot, but it looks like I should
> be able to use the same update mechanism even without using #lang FrTime.
>
> Are there any particular docs and/or code I should read (aside from the
> basic docs online and your paper)?  Any tips?
>
> Philip Monk
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> I don't think anyone is using FrTime, because nobody in the Racket
>> community really expressed much interest in it, so it didn't gain
>> enough momentum. I concluded that the kind of person who likes Racket
>> is perfectly happy with Racket's existing GUI libraries, and FrTime
>> was solving a non-problem for them.
>>
>> That said, a few people have given it a whirl, suggested a bug, or
>> provided an enhancement. It just hasn't had anywhere near the level of
>> sustained interest as Racket.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Shriram
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