(sixth RacketCon): Alexis King -- Languages in an Afternoon

Alexis King surveys Racket's tools for language creation and discusses how to streamline the process of building custom languages.

Racket is not just a programming language; it is a programming language platform. Ideally, it could be more than a platform, but a greenhouse—a perfect tool for incubating new languages and growing mature ones (general purpose or domain specific). This talk presents a survey of Racket’s tools for building languages, the process it takes to add an entirely new, fully-integrated language to the ecosystem, and the places where that process could be streamlined to achieve the dream of designing, implementing, and applying an entirely new programming language in a single afternoon. con.racket-lang.org