racket

Racket

VODs

• Day 1
• Day 2

References

• Racket Website
• The Racket Guide - good beginner's resource
• The Racket Reference
• Systems Programming with Racket
• Web Applications Tutorial
• Web Server Docs
• JSON docs

Dev Env

We installed racket-mode which had everything we needed built-in.

Compiler/Interpreter

We didn't compile anything. Just used the REPL.

REPL

$ racket

LSP

No LSP needed. REPL-connected buffer provides LSP-like functionality.

Package Management

The pre-installed libraries had everything we needed so we never reached for any package management.

Issues

• Had issues installing racket-mode the first time, but seemed to be a transient issue with refreshing packages from melpa.
• Despite the docs having a more modern UI and nice hyperlinking, I found the documentation to be a little difficult to use. Perhaps, this was due to not understanding some basics around struct behavior (such as what I assume are macro-generated accessors). I also missed the one page guides, manuals, and documentation available for Common Lisp.
• As alluded to the syntax of struct accessors being <structname>-<fieldname> definitely through me off.

Packages

We didn't use any!