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Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by zerr on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:24AM (#15078511)
Anyone using Racket in the wild? (Besides the Racket team)
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by sclangdon on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:19AM (#15080138)
I believe some games companys use it. Naughty Dog of Uncharted and The Last of Us fame, being the most famous. I think they used it to create some game logic DSL or something of that sort.

More info here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/comments/5g8xse/are_there_an...

Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by baldfat on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:22AM (#15080475)
I use it for a ton of pieces at work. I use R for the most part but for everything else I run Racket. I make reports with Scribble and make it into a scripting language for my file management. I also use it for making Reports and documentation with Scribble. https://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/pkg-build/doc/scribble/ind...
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by _delirium on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:02AM (#15080370)
Hacker News runs on Racket. :-)
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by flavio81 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:44AM (#15081021)
wasn't HN in Arc?
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by farray on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:51AM (#15081071)
And what is Arc in?
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by flavio81 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:00AM (#15081582)
The CPython JIT/compiler is written in C. Does this mean that a Python program is then a C program?

Arc is not Racket.

Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by _delirium on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:14AM (#15082108)
I suppose the original poster could clarify whether they were interested primarily in examples of the Scheme-derivative language "Racket" being used in production, or in the system/VM/runtime "Racket" being used in production. Since Racket (the system) now makes it very easy to define new languages on top of it with the #lang keyword, it might be nice to get more clearly distinct terms for these. The way the Java world uses JVM vs. Java, e.g. you'd say that a Clojure app runs "on the JVM", but it's not in Java.
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by _pmf_ on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:43AM (#15081438)
Ah, Arc, the No Man's Sky of Lisp derivatives
Re:Why I haven't jumped ship from Common Lisp to Racket just... by propelol on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:19AM (#15081273)
John Carmack is pushing for Racket at Facebook/Oculus