23 pointsby spdegabrielle2 hours ago4 comments
  • giancarlostoroa minute ago
    Racket was always one of my favorite Lisp / Scheme dialect, mainly because of its very rich ecosystem, you can make websites, GUIs a lot of things with very minimal effort, that and Dr Racket lets you see visually where import goes into code, and a bunch of other nice things.

    Rhombus strikes to me as an interesting language in this ecosystem (which it is!) that not only gives you access to all those capabilities, but shows how powerful Racket can be for building programming languages!

    That said I have not yet sat down to try it, but as they seem to be doing quick development with it, I just might have to.

    The entire Rhombus repo is all Racket:

    https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aracket%2Frhombus++languag...

  • spdegabrielle2 hours ago
    We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org

    Rhombus is easy to use and uniquely customizable.

    See https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html for the release announcement and highlights.

    • JoelMcCrackenan hour ago
      I experimented with Rhombus some time ago (most especially with Shplait). Is there much new with Shplait? Something I remember struggling with was trying to use racket libraries in Rhombus/Shplait
  • threatofrainan hour ago
    The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady stream of fraud garbage. There's nothing to promote the top libraries as the top libraries.

    https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/?fam=Rhombus

  • behnamohan hour ago
    I wish they had chosen a more "modern" name for the language.
    • Jtsummers32 minutes ago
      What would be a modern name for a language?
    • jambutters43 minutes ago
      Honestly a unique searchable name is better. I type in racket and results are mixed with tennis and I need to suffix "Language"
      • peesem27 minutes ago
        well, i also have to type "rhombus language" to get relevant results for the rhombus language
      • jimbob4523 minutes ago
        .NET/.NET Core/.NET Framework migration is painful because of this. VS/VSCode is sometimes only possible with AI’s help.