Rhombus 1.1 is now available

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...

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.

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

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