‘beginners get the *impression* Racket is slow’

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

There was a very interesting thread on #beginners about speed of Racket https://racket.slack.com/archives/C09L257PY/p1587535427171800?thread_ts=1587488943.145200&channel=C09L257PY&message_ts=1587535427.171800

What I took away from the discussion is beginners get the *impression* Racket is slow due to some design decisions a in DrRacket:

•  Debugging is on by default (hidden in #lang dialog under ‘advanced’)

• The Run button includes debugging (unlike other IDE’s) 

• The Debug button steps through the code- but does it turn on debugging and profiling if they are turned off? (I don’t think so but I’m not sure)

I’m not suggesting the design decisions are wrong - but I’m interested in working on DrRacket code to try improve the experience for all users.

Kind regards

Stephen

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