Moving this from `racket-users`...
It seems pretty clear the change was because the team responsible for
maintaining it changed it because they use C++:
I prefer to do engineering and science, rather than PR, but this
"friends of" effort seems to me to be mostly about PR. If you're doing
PR, then I think the above is not a safe assumption to make about
readers' perceptions, and I also think there is a good potential spin
here that you should consider making explicit:
in the category of Paul Graham startup mode rapid highly iterative
"first version in Lisp"
If you're doing PR, here might be an appropriate time to namedrop both
Carmack and Graham a single sentence that suggests a category of
industry application of Racket that would have startups using it from
the start. As well as used by established organizations that value
"startup thinking" throughout, or within certain units/projects.
You can craft your exact message with an engineer/scientist's sense of
accuracy and constructiveness, and still get PR mileage out of it. On
the "friends of" page, and also turning around the somewhat sour note in
that quoted thread.
I think there's a legitimate engineering argument to be crafted here,
not PR lies. After that, you can work on being able to back up a future
argument of how Racket can scale for after the startup's initial
version, and keep delivering benefits, which I think is also possible,
and maybe one of those hypothetical startups' contributions turn out to
be key to that.
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