Purkt — Racket

Target: Racket · By: Fabrizio Ferrai (confirm before publish) · Status: active, in flux — self-hosting scope · Repo: not in this tree — source from the author

A Racket backend by Fabrizio Ferrai, borrowing Racket's strengths in macros and language-building. Per the author (Discord, 24 May 2026): the scope expanded to self-hosting the backend, which pulled in filesystem/IO and fanned out into roughly ten libraries to publish; the work is untangling those to publish tidily. So: active, but currently blocked on the self-hosting scope and library-publishing tail rather than core compiler design.

Not to be confused with the purescm → Racket port investigation, which is a separate effort that happens to share the "purkt/purekt" working name. See the purescm page.

This page is a stub. The design doc is not in our tree — treat as in-flux and confirm authorship, status, and repo with Fabrizio before publishing.