Racket development on ARM

[James Platt]

I'm looking at the idea of writing Racket code on an ARM device. Specifically, I have a tablet, which shipped with Android, with an external keyboard. I have a few questions but I think I should start with the most fundamental. Is Lineage OS the best choice or would something else be better for development purposes?

James

[Jack Rosenthal]

On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 18:25 -0400, James Platt wrote:
> I'm looking at the idea of writing Racket code on an ARM device. Specifically, I have a tablet, which shipped with Android, with an external keyboard. I have a few questions but I think I should start with the most fundamental. Is Lineage OS the best choice or would something else be better for development purposes?
>

You may be interested in seeing if PostmarketOS is an option:

https://www.neilvandyke.org/postmarketos/


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[Daniel Lister]

I do my racket projects using android with an external keyboard plugged in as well, here's how I do it:

-Install termux

-Inside termux, do a pkg install unstable-repo

-You can now install racket

I haven't had any issues so far working this way.

-Daniel

[James Platt]

On May 15, 2019, at 11:25 PM, Daniel Lister wrote:

> I do my racket projects using android with an external keyboard plugged in as well, here's how I do it:
>
> -Install termux
> -Inside termux, do a pkg install unstable-repo
> -You can now install racket
>
> I haven't had any issues so far working this way.

Good. I already have Termux installed and have emacs and git working in it. I didn't realize that Racket was available in the unstable repo. Thanks.

James