Scandal in Racket community: Matthew Butterick left in anger

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5 years ago

A long-time well-known member of the Racket community, author of Pollen and the book “Beautiful Racket,” left the community in anger and grief. He says he doesn't want to have anything to do with them anymore. Reason: violent and bullying behavior of one of the main community members. As an explanation, he also left this letter: https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-racket.html

I remember Matthew writing this post on the Racket Group two years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/TU5n-Z_odLY/m/f2KzHK7eCQAJ Unfortunately, that post can now be read in a completely different light, as a kind of alarm that no one heard at the time.

Interestingly, recently another member, Leandro Facchinetti, also left the Racket community, reportedly for similar reasons. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c ) Obviously, something is rotten at the very core of the Racket community when things like this happen so frequently.