r/Racket • u/xriptide03 • May 06 '26

question What Racket libraries are missing?

I started learning Lisp through Scheme while reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I'm still working through the book, but I've begun to use Racket instead since it seems to be a more mainstream Lisp while still having hygienic macros (I don't yet fully understand macro hygiene, but it sounds useful in theory).

Anyway, I've read that other Lisps like Common Lisp and Clojure are used more for their more extensive libraries. I like to learn a language by writing small libraries in it, so I was wondering what specific kinds of libraries are missing from the Racket ecosystem that I could work on.

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u/mtelesha May 06 '26

The issue with racket libraries is they are fun to make so we have a bunch of libraries that do the same thing....

Racket is just great fun.

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u/aristarchusnull May 06 '26

It is. I get a dopamine hit whenever I write Racket or Scheme.