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Ericson2314 on Sept 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Racket – Lisp beyond Clojure

I need types. But Racket has the world's greatest macro system and everybody should imitate it, Period.

gus_massa on Sept 27, 2016 [–]

Have you tried Typed Racket? https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/

Ericson2314 on Sept 28, 2016 | [–]

Somebody always asks :).

1) I want my libraries to be typed all the way down.

2) Improving the implementation of typed racket is harder/less likely than fixing the macro systems of Rust and Haskell.

3) Network effects of those two languages.

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