Comment by spdegabrielle

1. Racket is a multi-paradigm programming language. It has Java-style class/object system, a CLOS-like object system(swindle) and a prototype object system (like self and JavaScript). 2. The macro system is arguably the most sophisticated available. 3. Functionsl programming! including '(purely)Functional Data Structures'. 4. Parallelism (futures) 5. concurrency 6. Contracts 7. Typed Racket 8. Pattern matching 9. Modules 10. Units 12. Pattern Matching 13. Exception, continuations 14. Reflection 15. arguably the most sophisticated tools for creating full languages and DSLs 16. Datalog language (like in datomic) 17.an amazing IDE - it has a tool to debug macros! (but you can also use Emacs) 18. Typed Racket 19. Functional pictures (pict) 20. OpenGL 21 cross platform (win, mac, Unix, Linux) it will even run on a raspberry pi 22. Amazing community 23. Math library (and plot library) 24. Scribble/@-expressions (like markdown but much more powerful) 26. Quite a few libraries