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Sorry, I don't have anything more concrete than "general vibes." Like, there's thousands of libraries and modules in Racket, sometimes competing with each othe
by sph 3y ago
Sorry, I don't have anything more concrete than "general vibes."
Like, there's thousands of libraries and modules in Racket, sometimes competing with each other, that feel like they have been developed for a school project and kept around. And it is no secret that Matthew Flatt, one of the lead developers, is actually a professor at Utah University.
In my experience, it is pretty easy to tell when a language and ecosystem is developed in academia, or developed by software engineers by trade. They have two very different goals and approaches to the same problem. The former might focus on educational purpose for newbies, the latter on shipping production-ready software for professionals.
(In my humble opinion, this is one of the reasons Smalltalk never went very far in the real world. Too much focus on the educational aspect of it.)
- igouy 3y agoIs "Smalltalk never went very far in the real world" also based on nothing more concrete than "general vibes." ? "A Shipping Industry Case Study" https://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/docs/OOCL_SuccessStory.pdf https://seaside.gemtalksystems.com/docs/OOCL_SuccessStory.pd... How do you know what corporations used to develop custom business systems?