[sansnomme]

And still no proper dependency versioning, it seems that the progress made by Npm, RubyGems, Cargo is entirely lost on them.

[dang]

Please don't be a jerk when discussing other people's work in HN comments. It subtly poisons the environment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[rscho]

Racket has a much smaller community. Also, it is more geared towards academic/hobby work than towards production software.

So priorities are different from the languages you mentioned. Still, racket remains by far the best solution for research in language technology.

[samth]

You might be interested in Bogdan Popa's new Racksnaps work: https://defn.io/2020/05/03/ann-racksnaps/ or Sage Gerard's new work on zcpkg: https://github.com/zyrolasting/zcpkg.

[Fellshard]

There are a vast number of critiques regarding the model those ecosystems have used; it would be unwise to stick the label 'progress' on them until some of those core problems are resolved.

[simias]

With regards to dependency versioning? I wasn't aware of that. I've been very happy with Cargo's handling of versioning so far, but maybe I've been lucky and haven't hit the pain spots.

[sansnomme]

That's rich considering Python is routinely criticized here for lack of proper dependency management until recently. Just because Racket is a cute Lisp/academic language does not mean it should be held to lower standards especially considering their recent efforts in relicensing and marketing to be regarded as a "serious" production language.

[ketralnis]

Be the pull request you want to see in the world

[bishalb]

Ain't nobody got time for that.