Re:Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (1997)
by neilv on Friday August 30, 2019 @03:05PM
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I vaguely recall DrRacket had a scrolling repaint performance bug on OS X within the last year or so. If whatever problem you saw is not already fixed, you might file a bug report on it.
Anyway, DrRacket is mainly an educational IDE, for students who've possibly never written a line of code before. You could see its defaulting to memory-limiting sandboxing as a good thing for intro programming students. (I usually use Emacs, though I do sometimes use DrRacket, for quick tasks, and when I want to use the Macro Stepper.)
I don't know whether the new-ish Jupyter kernel for Racket supports images, but that might be something to look at.
There are also several other good Scheme implementations/variants. Racket has been my favorite, but I'm moving back to building atop RnRS, as unpaid time permits.
Anyway, DrRacket is mainly an educational IDE, for students who've possibly never written a line of code before. You could see its defaulting to memory-limiting sandboxing as a good thing for intro programming students. (I usually use Emacs, though I do sometimes use DrRacket, for quick tasks, and when I want to use the Macro Stepper.)
I don't know whether the new-ish Jupyter kernel for Racket supports images, but that might be something to look at.
There are also several other good Scheme implementations/variants. Racket has been my favorite, but I'm moving back to building atop RnRS, as unpaid time permits.