Racket News – Issue 5

Racket has sometimes seemed like a closely-guarded secret, outside of research and education circles, so it's great to see this new outreach.

I've used Racket very successfully in production, and Racket is overdue for a few startups to use it to get to launch.

There've been a few Lisp family industry success stories, including the one that famously lead to YC and HN, and Lisps still have a few tricks up their sleeve that all the stacks upon stacks haven't covered.

Small side comment regarding outreach to practitioners: when challenging a perception that Scheme descendants are only for problem sets in school and academic curiosities, we should try not to use a code example of a Fibonacci function. :)