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RacketCon Is Saturday (con.racket-lang.org)

117 pointsby spdegabrielle7 hours ago31 comments

gus_massa 4 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.

agumonkey 5 hours ago

quite elegant, feels like a great balance idiomatic scheme and OO

attila-lendvai an hour ago

you lost me at the receiver selector order.

Jtsummers 42 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)

mike_ivanov an hour 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

spdegabrielle 7 hours ago

RacketCon is Saturday https://con.racket-lang.org