| > It's very much possible to use Racket without interacting with macros and language-building features. I would say that macros are integral part of Racket, maybe event the best part. But point is not about what is possible, it's really about what is the default/obvious part. It wasn't a comment on racket the language, but more about the environement around the language. > Libraries are dependent on the community, which unfortunately is comprised of mostly academic folk at the moment. I am not sure what point you are making here. Julia has a very very strong academic community, but the library ecosystem seems more production ready and actionable. > Not necessarily C-style syntax, but you could take a look at Rhombus. It's meant to have a more approachable syntax compared to S-expressions. Rhombus seems to be more than just alternate syntax. And how is the progress on this thing ? I think to make racket more mainstream would need more than things that are "possible", or available etc...
It probably need a cohesive story and experience around those, and that story to be at the for front on how Racket present itself : vs code extension as the main IDE, alt syntax + better libraries. |