Brian Adkins wrote on 7/22/19 1:28 PM:
Being unfamiliar with some of Racket's unique benefits, I initially felt it was simply the best Scheme I could choose for professional development.
Same here. (Long-timers have heard my story too many times... After I picked Scheme for my new super-productive R&D language (I'd mostly been using Java for research, and a couple urgent research prototypes in Emacs Lisp for bizarre reasons, after using mainly C and C++ professionally), I started writing missing libraries (`html-parsing` includes my first Scheme code, and it shows). I originally wrote portable Scheme, and tested it on *many* Schemes, but later decided I couldn't turn down the advantages of Racket (nee PLT Scheme), and so moved to it primarily.)
I still keep certain other Schemes in mind, for their particular strengths, and who knows when someone will come up with another one with a from-scratch implementation (e.g., targeting GPU/TPU, or groundbreaking scalability in some regard). And also seeing how RnRS develops, though sadly I don't currently have time/funding to contribute directly to it myself.)
Being 8 months into a large project in Racket, and seeing some of Racket's unique benefits more clearly now, I already know there are no other lisps that could currently lure me away,
Racket is my overall favorite Lisp, too (maybe someday Racket2 will be). I also have to acknowledge fondness of the Scheme foundation, the legendary greatness of Common Lisp, the innovations of Clojure, etc. Lisp is a big community, all with our own charming accents and mixes, and we don't talk as often as we should.
how someone who is primarily interested in using #lang racket should feel about continuing with #lang racket
Perhaps it will also continue to blossom, during the Racket2 linguistic Renaissance. (For example, there are a few quality-of-life extensions one might propose to `#lang racket`, to little opposition, when everyone is focused on the new thing.)
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