Racket: Why I Think It’s a Great Language, and Why I’m Not Using It Anymore
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Mostly cited critically, as evidence of problems in the Racket community, rather than recommended.
What it is
Leandro Facchinetti explains why he thinks Racket is a great language and why he stopped using it. He describes his backstory and experiences with the Racket community.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites jboynyc · 2021-06 · on “Why I no longer contribute to Racket”
You're probably thinking about this video: [this video] Leandro submitted it to HN but it didn't get any traction: [LINK]
Critical SnTJoy · 2021-01 · on “An awful experience: top Racket creator harassed the waiter at the conference”
I've had disgusting experiences interacting with people from Racket community in the past, but so far I thought I was the only one. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that way. Recently, a computer Scientist Leandro Facchinetti described in his video his ugly experiences with top people in Racket community. The experience was such that he completely gave up his PHD and the use of Racket forever. You can view the video here: [this video] In the video Leandro Facchinetti says: Speaking of people, it's very sad that I had same bad experiences with some people in the Racket community, especially the people up top because they are the kind of people who are smart and they know about it and they will not l
Critical SnTJoy · 2021-01 · on “Racket Compiler and Runtime Status”
Nice article. I think using Racket shoud be avoided because of its problematic community. I've had disgusting experiences interacting with people from Racket community in the past, but so far I thought I was the only one. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that way. Recently, a computer Scientist Leandro Facchinetti described in his video his ugly experiences with top people in Racket community. The experience was such that he completely gave up his PHD and the use of Racket forever. You can view the video here: [this video] In the video Leandro Facchinetti says: Speaking of people, it's very sad that I had same bad experiences with some people in the Racket community, especially the people up top be
Critical yaleL · 2021-02 · on “Creating Languages in Racket (2011)”
I think using Racket should be avoided because of its problematic community. I've had disgusting experiences interacting with people from Racket community in the past, but so far I thought I was the only one. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that way. Recently, a computer Scientist Leandro Facchinetti described in his video his ugly experiences with top people in Racket community. The experience was such that he completely gave up his PHD and the use of Racket forever. You can view the video here: [this video] In the video Leandro Facchinetti says: Speaking of people, it's very sad that I had same bad experiences with some people in the Racket community, especially the people up top because they ar
Critical wsylex · 2021-03 · on “How to Design Programs (2014)”
There are some people who completely gave up of Racket just because of him (take a look of this video: [this video] ). And, speaking of ego, just take a look at the author list on the cover of this book: [LINK] Notice the font size of his name, versus the font size of the students who actually wrote the book and everything will be clear to you!
Critical dermal · 2021-05 · on “Racket 8.1”
There are some very valid reasons [1] why we should stay away from Racket: toxic community, toxic people... And come on: no one has ever really used Racket to write some decent nontrivial web application, documentation is awful (and, please, don't count HN here, cause HN is written in Arc). [1] [this video]
Critical dytyramb · 2022-06 · on “Ask HN: Why DrRacket is so much memory hungrier than “bloated” Visual Studio?”
The bottom line is: 1) DrRacket consumes 0.7 GB od RAM for very little functionality, in comparison to Visual Studio 2) The performace was even worse but than Racket core team switched to excelent Chez scheme, being unable to produce such a quality compiler 3) If by any chance DrRacket was written in C, it would consume 300Kb of max memory, considering how little functionality this `development environment` has 4) I admire Kent Dybvig, I adore Marc Feeley, I love Mark Tarver. They all did really great things. But this team of the Racket really deserves more contempt than admiration (for details see this link: [this video] )