Rhombus 1.1 is now available

spdegabrielle

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.

threatofrain

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

behnamoh

I wish they had chosen a more "modern" name for the language.

giancarlostoro

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...

Skywing

With AI becoming so predominant, I wonder if dynamically typed languages will lose favorability? Seems to me like a heavily documented, statically typed language is going to be ideal for AI programming. I'm wondering what role these flexible, coder-friendly, dynamically typed languages will play in the years to come.