[HN Gopher] Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket ___________________________________________________________________ Hackett, a Haskell-Like Lisp in Racket Author : tosh Score : 41 points Date : 2020-01-19 11:07 UTC (11 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | dang wrote: | A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836290 | | 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-19 23:01 UTC)