[socialdemocrat]

I don't get this argument. Maybe you could elaborate. I tried for a long time to get used to Racket. I really like the idea of LISP. The reason why I started using Julia wasn't because it was good at numerical programming. I was because it was a much better GENERAL PURPOSE programming language than Racket.

Unless you do a lot of meta programming stuff, I don't find Racket to be advantageous to use. Julia syntax is much friendlier towards general-purpose programming. It is easier to do mathematics as well as string manipulation with Julia.

Multiple dispatch also makes it a lot easier to write code. Getting into the LISP heavy thinking of Racket is harder than jumping onboard Julia.

I find that I have been able to learn functional programming, meta programming and other things that make LISP/Scheme famous in Julia than I ever managed in Racket.