1. This perception comes from the fact that it is heavily used as an educational program. That there of course nothing bad about this. 2. The text you quote pr

1. This perception comes from the fact that it is heavily used as an educational program. That there of course nothing bad about this. 2. The text you quote precisely communicate what Racket is: a language marketed like a programming-language research toolbox and not like a day-to-day programming environment. I don't really think that Racket developers really try to sell the language in the same way Scala or Clojure ones do. Also, a lot of people actually "get it", and choose not to use the language.