Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> writes: > Being non-mainstream for practitioners, Racket is most popular with > people who have the freedom to choose any tools they want, not forced > into a mainstream set of options. Most often this means individual > alpha techies, researchers, etc.
That's true, but still wonder why not more hobbyist are using it. > I'd say the biggest downside is that there is still lots of things > that are off-the-shelf for some mainstream platforms, but require some > in-house DIY work for Racket. Sometimes this is something you can DIY > faster and better than you can get an off-the-shelf solution > integrated, but sometimes the DIY is just extra cost with no direct > benefit. Well, from the language itself down to the docs, everything looks great... > Disclosure: I'm a high-end consultant who prefers to use Racket for > the majority of programming-level aspects, and can help an > organization with architecture, process, training, etc. So I will tend > to make money as commercial Racket adopters are successful. Good to know. ;) Btw, thank you for providing scribble-mode[1] - I'm sure I'll use it quite often very soon! Sincerely, Gour Footnotes: [1] In order to reduce risk of RSI, I do use now Spacemacs and wonder if there is plan to put scribble-mode @MELPA? -- One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind. -- 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.
