Rhombus v1.0: A Racket flavored language with syntax
37 points by orib
37 points by orib
I appreciate that they are very clear in describing their goals and what they're trying to accomplish, even if what they're trying to accomplish is not even a little bit appealing to me personally.
Damn, I was looking forward to trying out this.
As of May 2026, (even before Rhombus 1.0), coding agents are pretty good at writing idiomatic Rhombus code.
The implementation is more Java-style and imperative than ideal for Rhombus code
I wonder why the automatic code regurgitator, known for having ingested every code base ever, would do that.
FizzBuzz Enteprise Edition[2] as a Service is teh future, get on board or get left behind.
Doing a cursory(heh) search for them so-called "coding agents" on the Rhombus repository yields me the commit that introduced rhombus-html-lib[0] and this other one[1], but that's only because the author of both referenced Claude in the commit message. Otherwise I couldn't find any of the funny Markdown files or state directories or .*ignore entries or commit trailers that I usually look for, great job!
[0] https://github.com/racket/rhombus/commit/520080743086ed14e5b6f4a22931333bd9e8f097
[1] https://github.com/racket/rhombus/commit/3504540f3af63499fd603abd1a37f6482b8e1f92
[2] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
The implementation is more Java-style and imperative than ideal for Rhombus code
Perhaps this is true for human-written code in multi-paradigm languages as well. Java (and imperative concepts more broadly) have been taught first to generations of programmers and many prefer them throughout their careers.
this looks pretty cool but i wonder if this would be any good as a lisp