I agree that success stories are helpful. I'll go one better — I think it would be great to have a section of the main Racket website devoted to these stories that show who uses Racket and how / why (inside & outside academia). This could be done in an interview-style format, like Jesse Alama's recent book about language-making in Racket [1]. Photos also. I would be happy to contribute design & layout if a sufficiently motivated collaborator — you, Neil? — wanted to conduct the interviews & gather the material.
I find the idea of doing language advocacy *on* Hacker News (or Stack Overflow, or Quora, etc.) to be weird. Not because I'm a curmudgeon. But rather because it's inherently low-leverage, and misses a lot of the people who are persuadable. [1] https://languagemakers.net/anthropology/ > On Dec 26, 2018, at 6:51 AM, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > > I want to see more people making a living working with/on Racket (outside of > professorships, and grad student slave stipends), and I think that means a > lot more companies using it for substantial projects, and I suspect the best > bet is startups who can choose their tools (and are funded as gambles), and I > suspect the best bet for that is getting HN startup success stories like: "we > got to launch and ___ funding round, with Racket, because DSLs, and Racket is > the best for that". Then other HN people will see a success story, a couple > might be inspired to think about DSLs for their own startup idea, and then > somehow this becomes RACKET EXPONENTIAL EXPLOSION. Or at least more people > making a living working with/on Racket. -- 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.
