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Come on, samth! Charging money for a book is not inappropriate. But charging (a lot of) money for a very lousy book are just pathetic. Did you ever read any of Jesse Alama's books? Thank God you didn't. That guy is tipical Racket community parasite: he parasitizes on your efforts and pains by charging his bad books, thus destroying the reputation of the entire community who turns out unable to write a fair book on how to use racket in a practical way.

And yes, the documentation is poor. I'm experienced developer and could tell that. Check this mess: https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/stateless.html#%28pa... WTF?

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Yeah, I think everyone understands that you have an axe to grind with Jesse. As for the docs: searchable? check; examples? check; narrative about what is happening? check. What's missing?

Are you going to tell us all books about your pet language are worth their price? How is that the community's problem?

rscho, I'll believe you when I see you or someone else wrote some more complex web application in Racket, which works properly and is scalable.

All of this will not happen, of course, because there is no such application written in the Racket in the world (no wonder when the documentation is so awful!)

When there's at least one, let me know.

> rscho, I'll believe you when...

Believe what? I've said nothing hinting at racket being good for web programming. What I do say is that you are missing the forest for the tree. You should probably go back to rails or django, as you'll be much happier there.

And if like your username and debate abilities suggest you are really 20 years old you can't present yourself as "an experienced developer", sorry for being blunt. Regarding Racket at least, you have a lot left to learn.

Stuffers are a very low level part of the webserver. I had no idea they exist until now. It's better to link to https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/run.html

I'm running the webserver so the T.A. in my department in the university choose they preferred building/course/day/hour to work. They are ~400. The first year I was worried that the server would collapse or something. Now I assume it is working unless I get many angry emails. (I don't remember the last time I had problems, most of the emails are about changes in the available courses and other administrative stuff.)

Back to stuffer, you can use the default stuffer or just ignore that stuffers exist at all, unless your site is huge.

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