Saša Janiška wrote on 02/14/2016 07:10 AM:
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 don't know how many Racket-using hobbyists there are. I have found,
via Google, references to various Racket programming not in the package
systems, such as in blogs, by people I don't recall from the email
lists. So I wonder whether the people who go to the trouble to release
open source packages and/or who participate on the email lists, are
actually the minority of users (not counting students required to use
Racket for classes).
I did have a book in the works, on practical software engineering in
Racket, which had baked into the process and tools very-low-friction
selective open source sharing of pieces of a system. Based on the ideas
of how I thought that would work and why, I have a suspicion that we're
losing a lot of what could be open source packages (and additional
visible users).
Neil V.
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