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by uneekname·3y ago·view on hn ↗
I love Racket, re-wrote my website in it and a few other projects. I'd call myself an advanced beginner, I guess.

> Racket excels as a programming language for young learners and beginners.

I honestly think Racket could do more to be beginner-friendly. The documentation is excellent, but difficult to understand as a newcomer. There are some great little tutorials that are easy to work through, but the ramp from there to writing your own Racket programs is steep imo.

I don't know of any other language with so many batteries included. Racket deserves to see community growth, and hopefully with that will come more resources for folks to get started

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My limited use of Racket is purely due to how it has its own IDE and nothing else.

Its fine, and its pretty good for Racket code (and its variants, like typed racket) but when I'm working on a real project I have other things I need to write too, like CSS, HTML, TypeScript, bash scripts etc.

Its more ecosystem to be more adoptable IMO.

I love it for learning though, but turning racket into a production level language w/ proper ecosystem has a way to go

Lots of folks use it outside of Dr. Racket.