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Racket is simply fantastic. I use both Clojure and Racket and I have few complaints about either. Clojure's main advantages are the performance of the JVM, larg
by swannodette 16y ago
Racket is simply fantastic. I use both Clojure and Racket and I have few complaints about either. Clojure's main advantages are the performance of the JVM, larger library ecosystem, and a larger community. Racket has plenty of things to be jealous of though, the efficient pattern matcher, the typed variant and the contract system are particularly cool.
- mark_l_watson 16y agoI also use both Racket and Clojure. I thought that Clojure was just a little faster than Clojure, but uses about twice the memory as Clojure. I also like Gambit-C and SBCL a lot, and it is sometimes a real toss-up which Lisp to use. Almost funny to compare now to the old days: I had a Xerox Lisp Machine in the early and mid-1980s. A great tool for rapid prototypes, but the question I could never answer was: how to deploy Lisp applications cheaply. That is no longer a problem!
- omaranto 16y agoYou said: "I thought that Clojure was just a little faster than Clojure, but uses about twice the memory as Clojure." Which of those "Clojure"s should be "Racket"s?
- mark_l_watson 16y agoI think that Clojure uses more memory than Racket, but I am basing this on the programming benchmark game mini-tests.