Comment by jessealama

I used to (and sometimes continue) to think that way, too. DrRacket does look terribly retro or unpolished at times. But despite appearances, DrRacket offers unique power tools for working with Racket programs that's hard to replicate at the terminal or in Emacs/Vim/etc. I work with multiple (Racket) languages, and DrRacket shines there because it supports Racket's "multi-lingualism" out-of-the-box. What's also not immediately visible is DrRacket's extensibility. Take a look at Laurent Orseau's quickscript (https://docs.racket-lang.org/quickscript/).