Hi Neil, > this "friends of" effort seems to me to be mostly about PR. Yes - I just copied the title from the Rust website.
- John Carmac <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack>(Oculus CTO) wrote *'I just dumped the C++ server I wrote last year for a new one in Racket. May not scale, but it is winning for development even as a newbie.'* <https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070919168> (2015) I hope this is OK? >you can work on being able to back up a future argument of how Racket can scale I'm out of depth with this - can you help? Stephen On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/racket-dev/36efb3e2-b1ca-024d-ae35-ae91bf2b62d3%40neilvandyke.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAGHj7-KWXF8zEr07BGYKT9fr%2B2%2B%3DDhdc4yYko7Pjn-FM5Lb1ow%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
