11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Racket first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Just did the tutorial and I really loved it!”
endorse · personal · mucholove · 2019-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used Racket in production environment for many years.”
mixed · production · oxryly1 · 2018-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That basically sums up my problem learning Racket. I got lost reading Racket document.”
regret · personal · joesb · 2016-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started writing my own version of schemesh in racket, but I never got far enough.”
neutral · personal · esrh · 2025-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I spend most of my time using Lisp languages like Hy, Common Lisp, and Racket.”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2019-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I now use Emacs or VSCode about equal amounts for Common Lisp, Racket, and Haskell”
neutral · personal · mark_l_watson · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wish I had learned more and especially earlier with Racket, than I did.”
neutral · personal · zelphirkalt · 2019-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the subset of Racket we use, all values are immutable, so an understanding of memory (stack vs. heap) is less necessary.”
neutral · production · alew1 · 2017-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is the same methodology we use in Racket and in the Bootstrap curriculum”
neutral · production · skrishnamurthi · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Although my self-teaching of programming began in Python it ended up veering through Racket and Smalltalk.”
neutral · personal · muraiki · 2015-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And because I'm using Racket rather than Common Lisp”
neutral · personal · tikhonj · 2012-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?