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Refinement Types and Dependent Functions Stable in Racket 6.11
Racket 6.11 brings refinement types and dependent function types to its Typed Racket variant.
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Racket 6.7 Brings Android App Support, Improved REPL, and More
PLT Design has announced a new version of Racket; its Scheme-like general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language Racket 6.7 introduces support for building graphical applications on Android, improvements to the REPL and to the package manager, and extended Typed Racked.
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Chez Scheme Native Compiler now Open Source
R. Kent Dybvig, professor emeritus of Computer Science at Indiana University, now with Cisco, has recently open sourced version 9.4 of his formerly commercial Scheme compiler Chez Scheme.
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Racket 6.5 Brings Improved Typed Racket, Faster Iteration, and More
Racket, a multi-paradigm programming language belonging to the Lisp/Scheme family, has reached version 6.5, writes Ryan Culpepper on Racket blog. The new version adds several new features, including improvements to typed/untyped code interaction, faster iteration on hash tables and sets, and more.
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LambdaNative: Scheme for Mobile, Desktop, and Embedded Cross-Platform Development
LambdaNative is an open-source Scheme-based cross-platform development framework that supports a wide range of platforms, including iOS, Android, Blackberry, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD and OpenWrt. InfoQ has spoken with Chris Petersen, Ph.D., leader of the development team behind behind LambdaNative.
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Racket 6.1 Released
PLT Design has released version 6.1 of Racket, its general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language belonging to the Lisp/Scheme family. Racket 6.1 introduces a new way of handling local recursive variable definitions and several other language features.
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IronScheme Nears Final Release
IronScheme, the R6RS implementation of Scheme for DLR, has reached RC1 after one year of being in beta.
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Javascript as Compiler Target: Clamato, GWT Smalltalk, Python, Scheme
Improved VMs and ubiquity have made Javascript an interesting target for compilers. InfoQ takes a look at a few languages that compile to Javascript: Smalltalks Clamato and GWT Smalltalk, Python with pyjamas and Scheme with Moby-Scheme.
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The Scheme Language Is to Be Split in Two
The Scheme Steering Committee is proposing the split of the Scheme language in two which temporarily are called Small Scheme and Large Scheme.
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Article: Exploring LISP on the JVM
This article, written by Per Jacobsson, is aimed at Java developers curious about Lisp. It discusses the different dialects of Lisp that are available on the JVM today, and gives a crash course in how Lisp programming works and what makes it unique. Finally it looks at how Lisp code can be integrated with a Java system.
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A .NET Triumvirate: IronScheme, IronLisp, and Xacc
Dynamic Languages are all the rage over the last year. Thanks to Llewellyn Pritchard two classics, Lisp and Scheme, are receiving the attention they deserve to run on the .NET runtime.