New Racket Language Website
Weird nitpick, but &quot;No Makefiles required&quot; is an odd selling point to me. I haven&#x27;t seen or used a Makefile in eons, and I would wager a decent chunk of programmers never needed to.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how to describe the feeling this creates. Like...I can feel the authors other experiences shine through or something to that effect.<p>There was a talk awhile ago by John A. De Goes where he asserted roughly that Scala&#x27;s then pitch of &quot;combines object oriented and functional programming&quot; was basically gobbledygook from the standpoint of &quot;why would I use this language.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;v8IQ-X2HkGE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;v8IQ-X2HkGE</a><p>I feel much the same way about Racket. Cool, very advanced DSLs and mini languages...what does that give me? What can I <i>do</i> with that?<p>Most of the page is dedicated to justifying &quot;no wait everyone, we have the bare minimum number of libraries&quot; or waxing poetic about the mini language concept.<p>What is the reason to use this over a less &quot;lexically powerful&quot; lisp like Clojure? What is the reason to use this over one of the boring old stalwarts like Java or Python?<p>Can I read from a Kafka queue? Can I call into AWS? Google Cloud? How strong <i>are</i> the libraries, and what would I have to commit to writing myself?<p>I actually do not understand why I would use Racket, and this page doesn&#x27;t help.