Racket
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8recommend
0warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“if you're a CS language nerd Racket might be a good fit for you”
“Racket is available at http://racket-lang.org/”
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“Contracts in Racket are duals of types”
“https://docs.racket-lang.org/rkt-tree-widget/index.html”
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Threads where it came up
- Racket v9.0 2 mentions
- Emacs Turns 50 1 mention
- A Programmable Programming Language (2018) 1 mention
- Assert(): A Modern How To 1 mention
- Rhombus v1.0 1 mention
- I keep bouncing off the Scheme language 1 mention
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“if you're a CS language nerd Racket might be a good fit for you”
“Racket is available at http://racket-lang.org/”
“Contracts in Racket are duals of types”
“Racket is s-expression based, so it has a lot of parentheses.”
If you're referring to C# (and Java) being the Kingdom of Nouns where a type like ArrayList is defined and contains its methods, sure, Lisp is not exactly like that, but I feel like conventions give you a similar experience. For example, functions related to hash tables all have `hash` in their name and are either constructors or they take a `hash` argument. They are contained in their own file (hash.rkt). Also, does
“https://docs.racket-lang.org/rkt-tree-widget/index.html”
I agree. I remember very few bugs caused by the rewrite, but I don't remember recent ones. For example, I found a bug running the tests of the r7rs package, it was simplified to a bug in "plain" Racket and later fixed, 3 days after the initial report. It was in June 2019 https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/2675 Note that at that time, the default version of Racket was he old one (before the rewrite).
“I used it to write a macro processor for C”
“Racket really shines in this regard”