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by smackeyacky 1584 days ago
I haven't used racket, but I would still lean towards languages that are heavily used commercially. The IDE support is generally better and the online resources are plentiful.
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Skills over specifics.

When you use the popular your average skills are lower. Also teaches you bad habits. Learning programming is different than learning a language. Once you learn programming you just learn syntax to learn other languages.

Also, Python might be popular but it is almost always the second-best option for whatever task you're doing. I still like to use the best tool for whatever I am doing.