It's always tricky when the bags of juices and meat get involved. :) I'm definitely planning to never stop throwing my weight into Racket.
Robby On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Brian Adkins <lojicdot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 2:40:23 PM UTC-5, Robby Findler wrote: >> Scheme is great. Racket isn't Scheme, although it draws a ton of >> inspiration from the language and it's design. Viva Scheme! Viva >> Racket! >> >> Robby > > I agree, but I have mixed emotions. The lisp community is better than most at > dividing and conquering itself. From an academic perspective, I can see how > there may be advantages to a proliferation of implementations experimenting > with varieties of solutions, but from an industry perspective, there appears > to be a lot of waste and reinvention of wheels. > > I do love the Scheme heritage in Racket, and I hope that the essence of > Scheme remains, but I would selfishly prefer that more developers would rally > behind Racket and focus on expanding the package ecosystem :) > > I'm still a relative newbie, but it appears to me that Racket is the > strongest of the Scheme-ey lisps, so that's where I'm investing my time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
