• Racket 9.0 released

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Mon Nov 24 06:40:07 2025
    The Racket programming language
    project has released Racket
    version 9.0. Racket is a descendant of Scheme, so it is part of the Lisp family of languages. The headline feature in the release is parallel
    threads, which adds to the concurrency tools in the language: "While
    Racket has had green threads for some time, and supports parallelism via futures and places, we feel parallel threads is a major addition."
    Other new features include the black-box
    wrapper to prevent the compiler from optimizing calculations away, the decompile-linklet
    function to map linklets
    back to an s-expression, the
    addition of Weibull
    distributions to the math library, and more.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1047549/
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