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In the Racket programming language, raco is a command-line tool used to interact with Racket's package management system, run tests, build documentation, and perform other tasks related to Racket development. It's a versatile utility that automates various tasks in Racket projects.

I’m reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and want to write Racket in VSCode in Jupyter notebooks in a dialect of Scheme closest to the book. This requires this declaration at the top of each Racket file:

First, we’re going to install Jupyter. As we don’t want to contaminate our global Python installation, we’ll do this in a venv

Command Palette (CTRL+SHIFT+P): Debug: Add Configuration

VSCode offers native test capabilities that are quite useful. Testing Python in Visual Studio Code

This must be applied to the configuration of the Typer object created for the CLI.

Here’s how to enable: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#enable-tab-completion-for-bash-fish-or-zsh

What on earth are “Snaps”?

This was working for me a while ago but today, when I tried, it was not.

“The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourselves in code.” — Robert C. Martin, Clean Code