[racket] Is typed racket ready for web application?

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Sun Dec 21 08:08:50 EST 2014

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:37:56PM -0500, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> Typed Racket is very production ready.
> 
> However, using it well requires writing down the types for the
> libraries you use when they have not already been done. It would be
> great for someone to start doing that for Web server libraries.
> 
> There are a small number of places where types couldn't be used inside
> of the Web server implementation, but I don't believe that would
> affect the users of those libraries, so wrappers would definitely be
> possible.
> 
> Jay

In fact, given the security requirements for web software I wouldn't 
seriously consider doing it without static typing.

-- hendrik

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