Hello everyone,<p>I'm looking for companies that are currently hiring Racket developers or did so in the past.<p>I created https://www.racketjobs.com, because I was myself interested in workplaces that use Racketlang commercially, but couldn't find any. After sharing the site on /r/Racket and a couple of other sites I got a bit more than 100 people to sign up for the newsletter.<p>If anyone knows a company, using Racket, or a place on the web where I can find open Racket positions, I'd be happy to hear from you. Of course I did my Google searches before.
We are working on a product written in Scheme. It's mostly just me currently. Not (currently) using Racket, but a set of libraries[1] on Gambit-C, as well as an interpreter written in C++[2]. We might take someone on board a few months from now (London/UK).<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/pflanze/chj-schemelib" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pflanze/chj-schemelib</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045890" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045890</a>
Naughty Dog (game dev) have used it to some extent. This has been up on HN more than once. They have even done a presentation on RacketCon 2013.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203694" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203694</a>
We, at Linki Tools [0], use Racket for our main product: S10 [1]. Not hiring at the moment but most likely will in the near future. I always hire remote (contracting up to now) and by the time I have to hire remote for racket I don't think I will have any problems finding a fine dev.<p>If you're in the Frankfurt area, I will be presenting at the first After Work Racket [2] on Thursday, the 8th. Come join us.<p>[0] <a href="https://linki.tools" rel="nofollow">https://linki.tools</a>
[1] <a href="https://linki.tools/s10" rel="nofollow">https://linki.tools/s10</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.meetup.com/After-Work-Racket/events/253939676/" rel="nofollow">https://www.meetup.com/After-Work-Racket/events/253939676/</a>
I enjoyed using it in college during my programming language theory course. However, I thought it was meant to be more of an academic/teaching language. Why should a company use it over Haskell or Clojure?
Great initiative. I often wonder why Racket isn't used more in the industry, especially when you see much more niche languages being used...<p>One note about your site: You are subscribing people to a mailing list without sending a confirmation email?
I just finished teaching Racket for 2/3 of the semester. I have never had a group of students hate their introductory programming experience the way that they did with Racket. 0/10 will never teach Racket again the rest of my life, no matter how much I enjoy functional programming.
I have a work available at the moment, but a bit quirky as we're using our own novel Racket-influenced scheme dialect for business workflow, coupled with Python. Happy to chat.
A long time ago, I was using racket at the largest hospital in Massachusetts analyzing DNA sequences of MS patients. I used racket to create a GUI that allowed non-technical biologists to create custom bioinformatics pipelines.<p>I found Racket to be great and highly productive. If you are looking to use racket at work I would recommend you look into working as a software engineer for academia.<p>If you are the only engineer around, you get to use any language that you want.