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by pera 4441 days ago
V8 vs Racket: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
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Not sure what you're saying with this? That they're fairly equivalent except when you need heavy regex jiggling?
Yeah, but I've basically never seen anybody suggest that Racket is a great language for prod.
Naughty Dog has used Racket as a scripting language in several of their video games for the PS3.
Slightly misleading, they don't actually run Racket on the PS3. IIRC, they created a DSL for game logic in Racket and wrote a special compiler for that DSL.

That's still a good example of a "real" program written in Racket, but it doesn't prove that Racket is a good choice for programs that need all the resources they can get.

Ah, I didn't realize that. Very interesting.
Also, Hacker News is written in Arc, which runs on the Racket runtime. It handles quite a bit of traffic every day.

It's an ugly-ass buggy website, but that is largely to do with the implementation and PG's propensity for live-modifying production sites in the REPL and not the runtime itself.