RacketCon 2013: Dan Liebgold - Racket on the Playstation 3? It's Not What you Think!

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it whenever Lisp in games, Naughty Dog or Racket in production comes up, as the main first-hand account.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Racket

Topic

racket in game development

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The speaker actually begins talking about racket and how they use it at about 6 minutes into the video. Here's a link: [VIDEO] Interesting to hear how they replaced GOAL in their toolchain. The people I've met who used GOAL in the past talked at …

• Other than the games they wrote entirely in GOAL, all of their PS3+ games use a series of lispy DSLs implemented in Racket that get compiled to C and C++ for defining data to be loaded in the game and dependencies between these data, light …

• Related talk by Dan Liebgold from Naughty Dog, at RacketCon 2013: [VIDEO] Starting at around 10m into the talk, Liebgold says their DC language for TLOU (to get what they most needed from a DSL even if using C++ instead of GOAL) was implemented in …