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What is Whalesong?
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Whalesong is a compiler from Racket bytecode to JavaScript.
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Why would anyone care?
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Because it allows Racket programs to be deployed on the web.
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Furthermore, Racket programs can access native JavaScript APIs.
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What do you want to show?
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I want to show the tool in action, programs that use it, and some
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of the internals of how it works.
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I want to show uses of the FFI.
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As well as World programming.
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I also want to show performance numbers (which means benchmarks...)
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How do you use it?
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I have a command line tool that consumes Racket programs and
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produces standalone JavaScript applications.
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What were the technical advantages of your approach?
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Reusing the Racket compiler. Strong possibility of reusing most
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of the Racket standard library, as soon as we can bootstrap
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racket/base.
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What were some of the technical challenges?
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Supporting the features of the Racket virtual machine (tail calls,
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continuations)
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What needs to be done next?
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Adding enough primitives to run racket/base
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