We talk with Matthew Flatt of the University of Utah about Racket and RacketCon.

As you may have noticed, the Cognicast has finally made its way to its new home here at cognitect.com!

Our Guest, Matthew Flatt

• On the Web

Music

Matthew chose "Palace of the Brine" by The Pixies to start the show and "Theme from the Bottom"by Phish to end the show.

Topics

• Racket
• Strange Loop 2014
• RacketCon 2014 (colocated with Strange Loop 2014, [$30 a ticket])
• University of Utah
• Scheme programming language
• PLT Scheme
• "So many Lisps and Schemes…"
• "Build up new languages…"
• "Make programming languages more adaptable…"
• Racket Macros
• "Everything is just macro expansion…" (PDF)
• Attaching different back-ends to the ClojureScript compiler
• Dr. Racket IDE
• "Extensible IDE…"
• Robby Findler
• Vincent St-Amour
• Typed Racket
• Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
• Typed Clojure
• Racket submodules
• Racket Scribble (documentation tool)
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• "Documentation as code, not data…"
• Alan Dipert
• Hoplon
• Education as a killer app for Racket
• RacketCon speakers list
• Michael Fogus
• Microsoft Research
• Simon Peyton-Jones
• Don Syme
• "Write a few papers here and there…"
• Racket mailing lists
• RacketCon archived talks: [2013], [2012], [2011]
• Racket math library
• Jay McCarthy
• Racket2
• Eli Barzilay
• Racket's #lang directive
• Scribble @ notation
• Matthew Butterick
• Syntax Objects
• "Melding run-time and compile-time…"
• Racket FFI

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Credits

Episode Cover Art:

• Michael Parenteau

Audio Production

• Russ Olsen

Production Assistance

• Michael Fogus
• Kim Foster

We talk with Matthew Flatt of the University of Utah about Racket and RacketCon.