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Re:Show HN: PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project by dsrguru on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:43AM (#3966240)
Racket really is an awesome language. When you want a LISP that you can optimize to get near-C performance, go with Common Lisp. When you want a LISP that does concurrency more concisely than Scala or Erlang, go with Clojure. But for literally anything else, you probably want Racket. Don't forget to add its ridiculously awesome continuation-based web server to your above description!
Re:Show HN: PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project by elibarzilay on Sunday May 13, 2012 @11:13AM (#3967194)
These days Racket is on a similar performance level as many lisps, and it also has three kinds of concurrency for you to choose from.