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You should look into Racket. Apart from getting some momentum due to the merger with Chez, it has a relatively big academic community backing it up. And it's v

by nextos 7y ago

You should look into Racket. Apart from getting some momentum due to the merger with Chez, it has a relatively big academic community backing it up. And it's very different from other Lisps in the sense it's trying hard to be an ecosystem for language-oriented programming, which is probably taking the idea of macros to a new level. I've used Common Lisp and Clojure for many years, but Racket looks more and more appealing to me.

nikofeyn 7y ago
> it has a relatively big academic community backing it up this is actually a problem in my eyes and will prevent it from gaining industrial traction. for example, this keeps the main developers as a revolving door of graduate students writing code and the core maintainers as full professors who have priorities different from industrial users. secondly, the culture of racket is as a research language. they just replaced the runtime (loads of risks for industrial users), and now they are replacing the syntax. this does not create an environment enticing to industrial users. the racket team feels these changes will increase its user base, but i believe if that ever happens, these changes are deferring such an increase well into the future.