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Racket: Why I Think It’s a Great Language, and Why I’m Not Using It Anymore

Leandro Facchinetti · 19.1K views · 2021-01-03 · 8:45

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Overview

Leandro Facchinetti explains why he thinks Racket is a great language and why he stopped using it. He describes his backstory and experiences with the Racket community.

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Mostly cited critically, as evidence of problems in the Racket community, rather than recommended.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2022

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dytyramb · 2022-06 · Criticism

The bottom line is: 1) DrRacket consumes 0.7 GB od RAM for very little functionality, in comparison to Visual Studio 2) The performace was even worse but than Racket core team switched to excelent Chez scheme, being unable to produce such a quality compiler 3) If by any chance DrRacket was written in C, it would consume 300Kb of max memory, considering how little functionality this `development environment` has 4) I admire Kent Dybvig, I adore Marc Feeley, I love Mark Tarver. They all did really great things. But this team of the Racket really deserves more contempt than admiration (for details see this link: [VIDEO] )

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jboynyc · 2021-06 · Reference

You're probably thinking about this video: [VIDEO] Leandro submitted it to HN but it didn't get any traction: [LINK]

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dermal · 2021-05 · Criticism

There are some very valid reasons [1] why we should stay away from Racket: toxic community, toxic people... And come on: no one has ever really used Racket to write some decent nontrivial web application, documentation is awful (and, please, don't count HN here, cause HN is written in Arc). [1] [VIDEO]

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