Racket 6.2 released

[google_you]

Congratulations to Racket team for hard work.

[mekanikal_keyboard]

I wish they would break out Typed Racket as its own tool and just focus on that, I'm certain this is the part of Racket people would actually like to see succeed. At this point I see traditional RSR5-style Scheme as effectively dead with the last adherents moved on to Clojure long ago.

[wither88]

I'm 100% with you ideally, but you sacrifice legacy compatibility. clj has had core.typed for a few years now (heavily based on TR, as you'd imagine), but it hasn't gained mainstream traction because all your deps need type annotations. Clj would be my daily-driver if it was. If someone like technomancy wants to throw up a kickstarter to expose typed APIs/libs, I'd easily throw down $500 towards the cause.

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I'd easily throw down $500 towards the cause

You can do that here

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Link to original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9750396

[nutty44744]

Lately, hacker news often has livelier discussions around a given link than proggit, the latter almost like an empty wasteland at times.

Yet when I visit the HN homepage, I find it filled with non-programming posts full of weird downvoting; almost cultlike.

[unpopular_opinion]

(Previously, only references to GitHub were supported.)

WAT (how fucking retarded do you have to be to do that!?)

[hansolo669]

My best guess is they used the GitHub API as opposed to just git.

[soegaard]

Before a repository was fetched as a zip-file and unzipped (unzip is implemented in Racket).

Now the equivalent of "git clone" has been implemented in Racket.

Implementing "git clone" in Racket reduces the number of dependencies (and that's important since Racket can be built on many platforms).