Hi! New to Racket. Looking for expert opinion on my question, but I should give some background.
I worked on software for about 11 years. Started on Win32 desktop applications with C++ and then eventually moved to web, where I stayed on front-end development for about 6 years. Moved to full-stack web dev then finally architecture + web systems. I became a polyglot by necessity and am now leading a UI team in a security startup. Those of you working on the web know that Javascript went everywhere. In my experience, I saw firms assume that they could now save on staffing by normalizing to JS: * Desktop devs (C++, C#, Go, etc.) were replaced by JS devs on Electron. * Mobile devs (Objective-C, Java Android SDK) were replaced by JS devs on React Native or Cordova+Ionic. * Server devs (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.) devs replaced by JS devs on Node.js. You get the idea. The JS tooling explosion came tried handle the domain influx, only to introduce the new problem of managing all of these domains. If you pull up a large (~500k+ line) JS project, any one JS module could be read by a bundler, a test runner, a transpiler, or Node. You have to maintain one script's ability to function in N different domains. This brings me to my questions, which I leave open-ended only because I'm not experienced enough with Racket to be more specific. Please let me know if I can elaborate more. I found Racket while I was looking for a way to explicitly manage knowledge domains while keeping a competitive edge. What I need your help with is finding out if Racket is the tool in which I need to invest my time. I see Racket can be used for web development, but is Racket really what I need to meet the demands of multi-platform development while competing in the market? Does Racket (or similar) sit at the next stage of evolution for the multi-domain developer stuck in Javascript? If so, why? Thanks for your time. Sage -- 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.
