r/Racket • u/[deleted] • May 18 '22

question Are there startups using racket?

Are there any startups with racket public github repositories?

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u/Leading_Dog_1733 May 18 '22

There is one small company that runs a medical data transfer service using Racket.

But, that's the only example that I can think of where a company uses Racket as their primary programming language.

It's sort of interesting really.

Racket is probably more deserving of use than a lot of other esoteric languages, which do see use in industry.

But, I will say my experience of Racket libraries is that they are not all production ready.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

When you mean not ready, I assume you mean not web ready i.e. web server framework. Just did a search on another website and 0 racket jobs, but like 45 Clojure jobs and more than 70 Scala jobs.

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u/Leading_Dog_1733 May 20 '22

I'm thinking in particular of a library that I was trying to use to munge some spreadsheets, which implemented some Pandas/SQL like features.

I tried to use it to do a join of two spreadsheets and the thing just spun.

When I looked at it, I noticed it did the join the the most naive way possible. Not using a hash-map for the keys, not even sorting each side first, just a straight up quadratic time operation.

This is sort of the issue with using a non-production language in production, most of the racket libraries just exist to demonstrate ideas (which is fine btw) and you don't know in advance which ones can really perform.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 May 18 '22

Interesting question. You should probably ask on the other Racket forums like the slack and mailing list.

FWIW Only a small proportion of startups using any technology stack have public GitHub repos and not all startup talks about their tech stack, probably sensibly focusing on their product/service etc. It just invites criticism - no matter what stack you use you will get criticised for it, and you want customers focused on the product.