[indigosun]

> The design of deps.edn/clojure CLI and the lack of user friendly tooling is forever frustrating.

"user friendly tooling" and ANY Scheme in the same sentence?!

I kid, but I always have held that Schemes feel like "tools for building a programming language" (the insanity that is (car ), (cdr ), (caadadr ) suddenly reveals its usefulness when you write an s-expression parser) and Clojure feels like "an actual programming language" with its benevolent use of brackets, build tools, and library ecosystem.

    (defn my-func [arg0 arg1] ..)    -- Clojure
    (define (my-func arg0 arg1) ..)  -- Scheme (of which Racket is one)

Racket seems to want to inhabit the space between those two with its package system and ability to compile to an executable.

One thing I've always liked about Racket is its refusal to accept (if )s without else statements, insisting instead on using (when )s.