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I'm not totally against Racket without parens, but to gain popularity this seems not to be the first action should be taken. Like IDE, tooling, libraries/ecosys
by namelosw 7y ago
I'm not totally against Racket without parens, but to gain popularity this seems not to be the first action should be taken. Like IDE, tooling, libraries/ecosystem improvements.
For example, the documentation is really great, but Drracket is only good, not great. Probably good VSCode integration would help a lot, since not everyone is using Emacs for serious work.
- galfarragem 7y agoInstead of moving to a new market, with more potential users - but also with fierce competition - it makes more sense to stay where they are and invest in "being so good that they can't ignore you" by investing in quality, and that means outstanding tooling and ecosystem. Recently somebody in HN also noticed the need for a "browser scheme" to take advantage of code and data being the same. That might be also an interesting path.