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Re:Racket Is an Acceptable Python by neilv on Thursday July 11, 2019 @08:03PM (#20417019)
I agree. Almost all class systems now are rehashes of things that are useful and were once very exciting, but now you've seen them in tens of languages.

When you encounter yet another one, learning it is usually a matter of seeing which set of semantics it provides (probably all of which you've seen before), and the exact way they do it.

Though one nice feature they included with Racket's `class` library, which was unusual (but not new) at the time, is mixins: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/classes.html#%28part._.Mi...

Re:Racket Is an Acceptable Python by darkpuma on Thursday July 11, 2019 @08:15PM (#20417070)
Mixins are pretty cool. I was playing around with 'framework's editor mixins a while ago and found it to be a pretty interesting system.