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Re:Future of Racket by hinkelman on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:26AM (#20635572)
The legacy libraries and languages are maintained but not promoted. For example...

"Do not use #lang scheme to start new projects; #lang racket is the preferred language."

If #lang racket could go the way of #lang scheme, then it is harder for me to justify investing my time in #lang racket now.

Re:Future of Racket by neilv on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:07PM (#20635979)
I no longer think that `#lang racket` will be allowed to become a second-class citizen.

The reason is: I think it's become glaringly obvious, to everyone, that a large percentage of Racketeers (including some of the educators) have no interest in any non-sexp language. If it were forced, the community would fork, in some way.

Matthew Flatt, for example, is a really first-rate developer, and of goodwill, and has some understanding of this.

I speculate it could take a month before any new discussion. People on academic calendars might be getting in a little vacation after the summer conference schedule, and then ramping up the new school year in a few weeks.