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by charlieflowers 4441 days ago
Web apps are a hack on a hack, yes. But it's kind of ironic he hates Javascript so much when Javascript is a pretty cool programming language heavily influenced by Scheme, which is awfully similar to Racket.

But hey, I like people who call it like they see it, and there certainly are some drawbacks to Javascript too.

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Javascript is a pretty cool programming language heavily influenced by Scheme. -> I couldn't agree with you more.

There is a Lisp-to-JS compiler (ParenJS). https://bitbucket.org/ktg/parenjs