On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 2:40:23 PM UTC-5, Robby Findler wrote:
> Scheme is great. Racket isn't Scheme, although it draws a ton of
> inspiration from the language and it's design. Viva Scheme! Viva
> Racket!
> 
> Robby

I agree, but I have mixed emotions. The lisp community is better than most at 
dividing and conquering itself. From an academic perspective, I can see how 
there may be advantages to a proliferation of implementations experimenting 
with varieties of solutions, but from an industry perspective, there appears to 
be a lot of waste and reinvention of wheels.

I do love the Scheme heritage in Racket, and I hope that the essence of Scheme 
remains, but I would selfishly prefer that more developers would rally behind 
Racket and focus on expanding the package ecosystem :)

I'm still a relative newbie, but it appears to me that Racket is the strongest 
of the Scheme-ey lisps, so that's where I'm investing my time.

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