RacketWhat is Racket?
It is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp. It is designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation. It is also used for scripting, computer science education, and research.
Racket is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Multi-paradigmObject-orientedCross-platformPowerful macros & languagesDrRacket IDE & tons of documentation
Racket Pros & Cons
Pros of Racket
- ✓Meta-programming
- ✓Hygienic macros
- ✓Beautiful code
- ✓Beginner friendly
- ✓Built-in concurrency
- ✓Built-in parallelism
- ✓Cross platform GUI
- ✓Extensible
- ✓Fast
- ✓FFI
Cons of Racket
- ✗LISP BASED
- ✗No GitHub
Racket Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Racket?
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Bower
Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
