In the language of web forums: +1 Insightful to Jack Firth's comments.
Back on topic: The question that is most important to me is: Once #lang racket2 is designed and produced and out in the world, will #lang racket still be actively supported? If not, will there be tooling available to convert source files back and forth between racket and racket2, and will there be a commitment to keeping that tooling up to date? I have no problem treating racket2 as an object format that I can decompile when I want to work on someone else's code, or compile to when I want to publish my own. Clear communication: The following is my personal feeling and emotional reaction. I understand that the core Racket team has no reason to be influenced by it, and I am offering it merely as a data point: If the scenarios I asked about aren't on the table, I feel like I might as well start evaluating other Lisp variants now. If I wanted to work in something that looked like Python or C and had the cognitive load of Python or C then I would work in Python or C. It would make me much more employable. On Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 11:06 AM Jack Firth <jackhfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthias, I ask that you please not respond to discussion about the > diversity of the Racket community by saying it's a political topic and > politics have no place here. That statement alone is political and makes > many people feel unwelcome, including me. > > On the topic of a new syntax: I am strongly in favor. I think it will > remove barriers to entry that have deterred many potential Racketeers. And > if there's one community I trust to put care and thoughtfulness into a > surface syntax design, it's the Racket community. > > On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 10:19:16 AM UTC-6, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Jul 14, 2019, at 1:44 PM, someone wrote: >> > >> > - I am indeed very for growth in the community, though my main interest >> > in growth is in seeing a wider diversity of participants than just >> > raw numbers. Obviously other peoples' mileage may vary. >> >> >> This is politics and politics has no business whatsoever on this mailing >> list. I believe there are things such as Facebook, Instagram and other >> Web-chambers where political opinions are welcome and echoes will always >> confirm your opinions. >> >> ;; - - - >> >> Our policy has always been that everyone, absolutely everyone, is welcome >> on this technical list to discuss technical issues. We don’t exclude >> anyone. And everyone gets treated the same and gets productive responses if >> possible. In particular, politics stays off this list; it’s divisive enough >> in the rest of the world. >> >> Thank you — Matthias >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a63d9bdb-4d5d-49e8-9451-d6524ac24752%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/a63d9bdb-4d5d-49e8-9451-d6524ac24752%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAE8gKodbcdb%3DKH5n_rEd0sRnadzxUvHS%2BvtUvRSm60Q%2Bo8D7LQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
