<story><title>Racket: Lisp for Learning</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbob45</author><text>Carmack is a huge fan of Racket. He was going to use it as the scripting language for VR until the Oculus execs made him use JavaScript instead (boooooo)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;id_aa_carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;807797812700348416&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;id_aa_carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;807797812700348416&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layoutIfNeeded</author><text>Ah, again! The first version of JS could have been a Lisp variant but the paper-pushers at Netscape had to ruin it. This was the original sin to which all the suffering of web development can be traced back.</text></comment>
<story><title>Racket: Lisp for Learning</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/795385/d7f8fe54132b2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimbob45</author><text>Carmack is a huge fan of Racket. He was going to use it as the scripting language for VR until the Oculus execs made him use JavaScript instead (boooooo)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;id_aa_carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;807797812700348416&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;id_aa_carmack&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;807797812700348416&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6thaccount2</author><text>I think I heard that even his wife didn&amp;#x27;t want him to teach their son Racket and wanted him to learn Java. Not sure if true.</text></comment>