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Why do you dislike racket?
by spacesuitman2 8y ago
Why do you dislike racket?
- quadcore 8y agoI don't remember everything on top of my head unfortunately, but it was things like, weird choices all around like long names, no real OS threads, that kind of stuff. Sorry, I don't remember, I just know I tried it a couple of times and disliked it.
- spacesuitman2 8y agoI have to agree on you regarding OS threads, although there are places, but they're processes. For long names, most names have an abbreviation like call-with-current-continuation has call/cc, and in any case, you can make your own abbreviation using make-rename-transformer so this shouldn't be an issue
- quadcore 8y agoWhy would one bother when clojure has core.async, short names and everything else?
- spacesuitman2 8y agoBecause racket has hygienic macros and #lang, and syntax-parse.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoThe tooling is complicated with Clojure. If you are teaching an introductory class, having a single simple install of DrRacket is a big plus.
- quadcore 8y agoGood point. Though I'm not so sure it's such a big deal in comparison of using a language that's not entertaining.