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Re:Release Announcement for Racket 6.10 by metaobject on Monday July 31, 2017 @07:15PM (#14896680)
Is anyone aware of any languages targeting the Racket VM? Any thoughts on whether the Racket VM would be a more pleasant VM target than, say, the JVM or the .Net CLR?
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Re:Release Announcement for Racket 6.10 by peatmoss on Monday July 31, 2017 @07:50PM (#14896838)
The VM itself without the "racket is a language for building languages" thing? Not that I know of. That being said, Racket has a LOT of languages built on it.

For example, this site (Hacker News) is built in Arc, which is built on an old version of Racket.

EDIT: Also worth noting that Racket will move to an even more performant runtime (Chez Scheme) at some point in the future.

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Re:Release Announcement for Racket 6.10 by notjack on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:38AM (#14898579)
The "Racket VM" is designed from the ground up for other languages to be built on top of it (hence the #lang line at the beginning of every file) so it would likely be much better. Hackett[1] is a Haskell-like lang built on top of racket, for a nontrivial example.

[1] https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

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