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A collection of good snippets, in a lot of languages
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Add language Racket #93

Open Deleplace opened 4 years ago

Deleplace commented 4 years ago

See https://racket-lang.org/

Programming-Idioms is not intended to host code in all languages, only the most widely used languages. A new entry is possible only after a lot of users have requested it. Please add a comment to this page if you feel this language should be added.

spohngellert-o commented 4 years ago

Racket is a very popular scheme based language. Its main idea is Language Oriented Programming: https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-lop-why-racket.html

It is very popular in programming languages communities, and as a teaching language.

Hacker news is currently written in racket: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-websites-made-using-Racket

otherjoel commented 4 years ago

Adding my vote!

spdegabrielle commented 4 years ago

Agreed! Racket is an important emerging language. It is used in a surprising number of spaces outside academia, and is highly influential.

euhmeuh commented 4 years ago

Racket is considered by many one of the most "batteries-included" Scheme out there. The standard library features a web-server, a GUI programming interface, a graphics engine... Adding to that the 1300 community libraries on https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/