Next time I get an idea for a side project, I'm thinking of giving Racket a go. I've used Clojure on past personal projects (and currently at work), but I'm starting to grow weary of the JVM.
If the next idea that comes to me happens to be/involve a web app, perhaps a Racket backend with a cljs frontend might be fun.
Re:Racket: Lisp for Learning
by dorian-graph on Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:22PM
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> .. that I'd say few teams could've pulled off in a non-Lisp.
Would you mind expanding on this? (I’m not asking facetiously either)
There's at least one large-codebase complex Web-based production system in it, which incidentally accomplished a first on AWS, but you've never heard of it, since it's internal-ish. It was a happy accident of history, that grew out of a lone super-productive programmer starting a complex data science infrastructure that I'd say few teams could've pulled off in a non-Lisp.
I've been waiting for another startup to decide they're going to do their first version in Racket, to do something non-cookiecutter. (It turned out neither myself nor my own startup co-founder had any interest in doing the CEO side of things, or I would've launched such a startup already.) But anything Scheme-related has a terrible curse for perception: students associate it with academic oddities in first-year classes, and then they focus on whatever "real" tools they hear employers or other companies are using.