> "The main Racket distribution now consists of roughly 1.2M lines of Racket (including 270k lines of documentation source), but that code is still supported by roughly 200k lines of C. Large parts of Racket’s implementation remain in C only because the original interpreter was in C, and all of that C code is relatively difficult to maintain."
For context, cloc says that Chez Scheme has ~100k lines of scheme code and 16k of C (plus 15k of C headers.) I didn't know Chez was that much smaller than racket/base; that's pretty cool. 16k instead of 200k is a huge difference.
For context, cloc says that Chez Scheme has ~100k lines of scheme code and 16k of C (plus 15k of C headers.) I didn't know Chez was that much smaller than racket/base; that's pretty cool. 16k instead of 200k is a huge difference.