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I do think we should add a code sample prominently on the page, however. I've always find it really frustrating when I look at a programming language and can't get a quick sense of how it looks. If a language looked like, say, APL, I'd be reluctant to use it even if it had an impressive ecosystem.

Issue filed: https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org/issues/115.

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Oh I thought the first tab had code and the complaint was it was too low. I guess that was a prototype build of the site. Yeah we should get that back.

Yeah, there is code set up in the page to add a code sample for each tab in the ecosystem. It's a matter of content (adding it).

Racket sounds like a really exciting language, but every time I look at some code...

Racket is having its runtime replaced with the now open-source chez scheme, so it should get faster (my limited understanding) even though it is already faster than a lot of dynamic languages.

Lisp languages do take a long time to get used to.

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