RacketCon Is Saturday (con.racket-lang.org)
115 points by spdegabrielle 7 hours ago
gus_massa 3 hours ago
For the curious, there is an official YouTube channel with the previous editions https://www.youtube.com/@racketlang/playlists (It usually take a few months until the videos are edited and uploaded.)
dharmatech 5 hours ago
I've been messing around with a language that I summarize as:
ALOE = Scheme + Smalltalk + Types
https://github.com/dharmatech/2026-09-02-aloe-racket
Prototype is in Racket.
mike_ivanov 17 minutes ago
Cool project, thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about something similar lately.
However. "Send, not apply" - sigh.. how shall I put it.. let's try this - eyes_rolling_so_hard_they_fall_out_of_sockets.png
attila-lendvai 39 minutes ago
you lost me at the receiver selector order.
Jtsummers 12 minutes ago
It's a common way to implement OO in Lisp-y languages, and it fits if you're taking Smalltalk as an inspiration. SICP has an example in chapter 3 (IIRC) of doing the same, but the selector had to be quoted as in:
(my-account 'balance)
(my-account 'withdraw 10)agumonkey 4 hours ago
quite elegant, feels like a great balance idiomatic scheme and OO
spdegabrielle 7 hours ago
RacketCon is Saturday https://con.racket-lang.org