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The person you've highlighted as doing everything is Matthew Flatt, a professor at the University of Utah, not Matthias Felleisen, whose contribution in code is

The person you've highlighted as doing everything is Matthew Flatt, a professor at the University of Utah, not Matthias Felleisen, whose contribution in code is not the reason he is indispensable to the project.

sdesol 5y ago
Shit my BAD! I'll update my post to correct things.
- 523asdfas 5y ago
  Wow it's almost like we shouldn't be doxxing people in case we have mistaken identities?
  - sdesol 5y ago
    Is it really doxxing? I made what was publicly available and it wasn't slanderous, it just invalidates my argument.
    - parenwielder 5y ago
      For what it's worth, if you wanted to make the argument that Racket the programming language would not exist without Matthew Flatt, you'd be undoubtably correct. He is more-or-less the sole maintainer of the compiler, but fortunately for everyone involved is a very nice guy.
      - threatofrain 5y ago
        Who is Matthias Felleisen to Racket?
        parenwielder 5y ago
        Matthias was the PhD advisor of Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi at the time where (what would eventually become) the Racket project started. Virtually all of the core contributors are either his PhD students over the years, or students of his former PhD students after they became professors. He's the project's steward, being the person primarily responsible for securing grant funding for the work that goes into Racket, and the project's "visionary" (as much as such a thing can really exist), being the one who has most explicitly philosophized the concept of "language-oriented programming" (though there are plenty of other researchers now interested in the subject, including independently from Matthias' lineage). It'd be difficult not to understate the importance he has had to the careers of his former students (both in terms of the research they've done and in terms of his support in doing the politics necessary to have a successful career in academia).

sdesol 5y ago

Shit my BAD! I'll update my post to correct things.

523asdfas 5y ago
Wow it's almost like we shouldn't be doxxing people in case we have mistaken identities?
- sdesol 5y ago
  Is it really doxxing? I made what was publicly available and it wasn't slanderous, it just invalidates my argument.
  - parenwielder 5y ago
    For what it's worth, if you wanted to make the argument that Racket the programming language would not exist without Matthew Flatt, you'd be undoubtably correct. He is more-or-less the sole maintainer of the compiler, but fortunately for everyone involved is a very nice guy.
    - threatofrain 5y ago
      Who is Matthias Felleisen to Racket?
      - parenwielder 5y ago
        Matthias was the PhD advisor of Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi at the time where (what would eventually become) the Racket project started. Virtually all of the core contributors are either his PhD students over the years, or students of his former PhD students after they became professors. He's the project's steward, being the person primarily responsible for securing grant funding for the work that goes into Racket, and the project's "visionary" (as much as such a thing can really exist), being the one who has most explicitly philosophized the concept of "language-oriented programming" (though there are plenty of other researchers now interested in the subject, including independently from Matthias' lineage). It'd be difficult not to understate the importance he has had to the careers of his former students (both in terms of the research they've done and in terms of his support in doing the politics necessary to have a successful career in academia).