Comment by Decabytes

I think it's like you said. We will just have to wait and see. You are not the only one that has voiced their apprehension about moving away from S-expressions. One thing I really appreciate about the Racket Team is their commitment to reducing the barrier to entry into the language. Whether it's the Documentation, A built in IDE for the language, package manager, binary downloads directly from the website, or moving away from mailings lists and Google Groups to Discourse. You could even say that moving on top of Chez Scheme to reduce the amount of C code to maintain is also reducing the barrier. It's easier to get into Racket in 2022 then it has been at any point in time. Especially if you aren't familiar with Lisps like I was a few years ago.

I think this is another move in that direction. If it fails, then we will have a strong data point into why Lisps are just better for some things. But the team is dedicated to not just doing things the old way and we've gotten so much good from that mode of thinking that I'm excited to follow this process whether it fails or not.