<div dir="ltr">I would actually think that a good first step would be to port the Racket VM, so that business logic can be run in Racket. GUI would be hard of course, but I think that for the moment being able to run a background process written in Racket would be "enough" for me, communicating with an Android GUI through TCP or something.<div><br></div><div>Somebody has to fix the overuse of C in the system, although I hear it's being done. Hashtables in C are pretty ridiculous, especially since pure Racket libraries like <a href="https://github.com/97jaz/hamt">https://github.com/97jaz/hamt</a> are just as fast :/</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Byron Davies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byrondavies@starshine.us" target="_blank">byrondavies@starshine.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm very glad to see a resurrection of the possibility of Racket running on Android. Although a DrRacket development environment would be nice (with "appropriate" modifications for touchscreen interaction), I would be happy to have a runtime environment that supports the Racket GUI, starting with the Racket Drawing Toolkit.<div><br></div><div>I'm part of a team developing an open-source app for teaching young kids reading, writing, and math. We're competing for the Global Learning XPRIZE <a href="http://learning.xprize.org" target="_blank">http://learning.xprize.org</a>, which requires that entries be delivered on Android. Our plan is to build on computer-based Racket, but eventually we'll need an Android-based Racket for deployment.</div><div><br></div><div>We're a volunteer team, with amazing people (educators, techies, and fundraisers), but zero money as yet, and no Android experts. For now, all we can offer is encouragement to the Android effort. We would love to be your users.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Byron Davies</div><div>StarShine Academy</div><div>Phoenix, AZ</div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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