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"Not enough libraries" is usually not a complaint about the standard library but about "if I need to do $SLIGHTLY_WEIRD_PROTOCOL, will I have to write it from s
by technomancy 11y ago
"Not enough libraries" is usually not a complaint about the standard library but about "if I need to do $SLIGHTLY_WEIRD_PROTOCOL, will I have to write it from scratch?" Racket has made strides on this in recent years but still lags far behind Python or the JVM.
- jarcane 11y agoTrue. There are a fair few packages in raco, but I think Chicken's eggs[1] may be a better bet for 3rd-party support just yet. [1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html
- samth 11y agoThe last time I counted, I think there were more packages between PLaneT and pkgs.racket-lang.org than Chicken eggs. Also, Chicken relies on eggs to provide a lot of things that the Racket standard library contains.
- jarcane 11y agoFair enough. I'd not done the comparison myself, I use Racket myself.