Bogdanp / Noise

A Swift wrapper around Racket CS.

Noise

Noise is a Swift wrapper around the Racket CS runtime intended to simplify embedding. See Tests/NoiseTest/RacketTest.swift for an example.

Usage

Clone this repository locally and run make, then add it to your project as a local dependency. Git LFS is used to store the binary files in Lib/ and in Sources/Noise/boot, so you will need have LFS installed in order to pull those files.

The shared libraries and the boot files must match the version of Racket you use to compile your Racket code. Most likely, the versions of the files checked into the master branch won't match your version of Racket. To import your own versions of these files, build Racket from source and run:

./Bin/copy-libs.sh arm64-macos /path/to/src/racket

Where the first argument is either arm64-macos if you're on an Apple Silicon Mac or x86_64-macos if you're on an Intel Mac.

Pre-compiled builds for recent versions of Racket are available on the following branches:

• racket-8.10
• racket-8.11
• racket-8.11.1

See NoiseBackendExample for an example application built with Noise.

NoiseSerde

The NoiseSerde package and its associated noise/serde module (from Racket/noise-serde-lib) provide a way to define data structures that can automatically be shared (via serialization & deserialization) between Racket and Swift.

To use NoiseSerde from racket, you will have to install noise-serde-lib:

raco pkg install Racket/noise-serde-lib/

You may also want to install its docs:

raco pkg install Racket/noise-serde-doc/

NoiseBackend

The NoiseBackend package and its associated noise/backend module build upon NoiseSerde to provide a client-server implementation where the Racket server is continuously run in a background thread and the Swift client communicates with it via pipes.

License

Noise and its associated packages are licensed under the 3-Clause BSD license.

See this page for information on Racket's license.