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JOOC, what big companies are using racket-lang? This is the first time I heard of it.
by thepumpkin1979 14y ago
JOOC, what big companies are using racket-lang? This is the first time I heard of it.
- JoelMcCracken 14y agoI don't know of any (and I dont think there are any), unless you accept major educational institutions as a substitute for big companies. I keep waiting for Racket's day to come, because it is a really great system.
- reddit_clone 14y agoPerhaps they are using it as a 'secret weapon' and not talking about it? Wouldn't surprise me.
- JoelMcCracken 14y agoMe either. I hope not, though. Lisp is entirely too anti-social.
- autodidakto 14y agoRelevant and required lisp reading: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm
- JoelMcCracken 14y agoSuch a good essay!
- makmanalp 14y agoDon't know of big companies, but it used to be called PLT scheme. It's known for it's huge-ass standard library (batteries included style) and being used as an educational tool in a bunch of big tech schools in the US.
- p4bl0 14y agoNot only in the US actually, it is used in Germany and France too, at least.
- asolove 14y agoYou know that "Racket" is the former "PLT Scheme", right? Some boutique consultants use it, notably Untyped: http://untyped.com/ http://untyped.com/
- Evbn 14y agoI heard that Untyped and Well Typed tried to set up a corporate softball league, but they couldn't agree on a ruleset to use.
- takikawa 14y agoLast year, someone from Naughty Dog gave a talk at CUFP about using Racket: http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2011/functional-mzscheme-dsls-game-development http://cufp.org/conference/sessions/2011/functional-mzscheme...
- p4bl0 14y agoIt is also used by Y Combinator (Hacker News is programmed in Arc and the Arc language runs on mzscheme, which is Racket's core).
- jparishy 14y agoNot a big company, but Northeastern University's CS department uses it in their intro course to computer programming. The staff there is all about PL research and I believe they use it pretty extensively in that regard. I spent a semester there and the staff are hardcore into it. I learnt a lot from Olin Shivers (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/) and he used Racket extensively.
- colanderman 14y agoThat's largely due to the presence of Matthias Felleisen, who (AFAIK) spearheaded Racket.
- carterschonwald 14y agoUnderstatement. A good fraction of the pl dudes there work on racket, and they have One of the largest active pl groups in the us if not the planet
- tbenst 14y agoBrown University's accelerated intro CS class only uses Racket (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2011/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2011/). Beautiful language. Everything in the language, including basic core functions, can be built only using lambda
- addies 14y agoIt's also used at the University of Waterloo in Canada for their first few CS courses.