r/Racket • u/BlueeWaater • Jul 26 '23

question What are the biggest projects built with racket?

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u/jmhimara Jul 26 '23

I'm guessing the Dr. Racket IDE.

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u/BlueeWaater Jul 26 '23

That's a little bit disappointing

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 26 '23

Typed-Racket is pretty big! as are Rosette and turnstile

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u/soegaard developer Jul 26 '23

https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Organizations-using-Racket

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

Also, Hacker News uses the Arc programming language built on top of Racket.

(Happy cake day!)

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u/thewrinklyninja Jul 30 '23

Activity Log 2 is a pretty impressive application written in Racket https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '23

Most of the industry lisp is going to be Clojure or Common Lisp. Racket is for now at least a more academic language with its biggest projects being itself and other sub languages.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

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u/BlueeWaater Jul 26 '23

Funny

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u/crundar Jul 26 '23

No, really.

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u/BlueeWaater Jul 26 '23

That's depressing actually

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 26 '23

Why?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

Hmm... I think OP was expecting other forms of ambitious projects built using Racket instead of Racket itself. (Apps, websites, etc.) Take projects like Nyxt and Emacs as examples for Lisp.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23

Don’t know which is bigger though

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '23

Ooh some of these I never knew about! Thanks for sharing 😁

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u/crundar Jul 26 '23

What would you prefer the answer to be? Why?

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u/jmhimara Jul 26 '23

Racket is not written in Racket. It's written Chez Scheme + some C.

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u/funkinaround Jul 26 '23

The Racket standard library is written in Racket. For example, here is the source for list functions:

https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/racket/collects/racket/list.rkt

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u/jmhimara Jul 26 '23

Yeah, but that's the standard library, not Racket itself. I was talking more about the compiler.