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Update on my Racket exit
Figure 1: Blasting off from planet Racket to other planets. Thanks ChatGPT. It’s been almost two years since I took a public step away from the Racket diaspora. I’m writing this post to air out how my Racket projects have gone since then. I believe, as of now, I have zero Racket codebases to maintain — hooray! I want to show how to handle old codebases. Let’s reaffirm the importance of handing off inactive projects instead of holding on to them.
I was on the fence with archiving the tinybasic.rkt repository; given the 10+ stars for this boutique programming language that exists within a niche community, it seemed like a raw deal for these passionate individuals. I’m not set up anymore to QA and review Racket related patches so it made sense to offer up the project to interested users. I’ve been writing a great deal of Python, Bash, Awk, Perl 5 for my own consumption and it’s kept my focus free for other activity such as biking or cooking.
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