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Re:Racket Compiler and Runtime Status by rscho on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:06AM (#25901879)
Racket positions itself mainly as an education and research platform. Yes, this is what puts food on the table of academics. I don't understand your criticism. Racket is very impressive in many ways, but making a run-of-the-mill webapp in two lines is not one of them.

IMO, thinking that nothing important came out of Racket reseachwise is a highly uninformed opinion. I mean, dependent type systems as macros (therefore bringing true static types as a library)! Come on, is that not impressive?! Rewriting Scheme-on-Scheme to obtain something simpler and pretty much as fast as Scheme-on-C is not impressive!? A Scheme program that compiles to a C parallel GC is not impressive!?

On the contrary, the core Racket team is very, very impressive. Just not for the things you yourself wish for.

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Re:Racket Compiler and Runtime Status by zelphirkalt on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:49AM (#25903036)
Huh? Weird, I have written a blog website in what Racket offers, following the documentation you criticize in another comment and got it working. Even the not so easy to understand continuation based side of it came to me after reading it thoroughly. It is quite simple to setup your REST routes and all that.

If you are interested, you may refer to: https://github.com/ZelphirKaltstahl/racket-markdown-blog/tre...

I did never bring it online, as I never rented a server for it, but it definitely functions and I had some local posts, which I did not include in the repository.

Did you never have a software without documentation? I think that would be way worse than having a sort of OK documentation of a bare bones web framework, that is actually understandable, with careful reading.

The Racket mailing list is also very helpful and people there are helpful in my experience. Show them you tried and your attempt at things and they'll probably help you out. My only pain with it is, that they are on Google groups.

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Re:Racket Compiler and Runtime Status by rscho on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:44AM (#25902501)
I'm sorry, but it's like complaining that Haskell is not a practical language. If you want to do production work, then why not focus on languages that are geared towards that? There are a lot of choices out there...
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