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If I wanted to just use Chez Scheme in DrRacket, how would I do that?

It's a trick question, there is no #lang, and #lang r6rs does something completely different.

Then there's several major issues with prominent figures of the community. Felleisen has allegedly abused people for decades, Butterick is suing over Github Copilot, arguably the most significant productivity software ever created. On top of that, there's a large prominence of authors that are present one year, gone the next, presumably from using Racket for school/university projects and then leaving once they start working on real software at their jobs after they graduate. Understandable, but doesn't leave a good impression for any organization that might be interested in using Racket professionally. Only example I can think of is Hacker News, which serves a few kb of text and can't yet manage the apparently complex world of pagination. Of plain text.

So, I think the landscape for Racket is a bit more bleak than represented here.

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