[HN Gopher] Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket
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       Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2020-01-19 11:07 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836290
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       | One from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14432912
        
       | stewbrew wrote:
       | That's about what modern scheme should look like in 2020. Now
       | let's turn this into r8rs and let the compilers take advantage of
       | the extra information.
        
         | bjoli wrote:
         | Nah man, that is what Haskell should have looked like so we
         | could have escaped the horrors of template Haskell.
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         | I would love an ML-ified scheme, but I am not sure Hackett
         | captures what scheme is, at least not after playing with it for
         | a couple of hours. It feels very much like haskell.
        
       | frasermince wrote:
       | I'm pretty sure development on this project has stopped. That
       | said I would love to see a project of this kind come to maturity.
       | A Haskell like language with a good macro system could solve a
       | lot of problems that are poorly solved by something like template
       | Haskell.
        
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