Could anyone comment on the Lisp --> Racket mind-blowing experience? I have worked with Lisp and Clojure, and most of the big concepts are shared. What has racket on top of (common, I assume?) lisp?
It is simply that I found Racket to be the most pleasant and inviting to use. An all-in-one toolset, with a large and vigorously well documented standard library, and some of the best books on programming there are.
As a sometimes-aspiring language designer who'd already done one esolang before coming to Lisp, the language dev tools that Racket provides were also far too enticing to stay away from.
> What has racket on top of (common, I assume?) lisp?
Racket is from the Scheme family rather than the Common Lisp family, (Racket used to be PLT-Scheme before the name was changed because Racket isn't strictly an implementation of the Scheme standard, though it includes such an implementation among its bundled languages.)
