Racket's Rhombus 1.0 turns a decades-old macro thesis into a cleaner language bet
Matthew Flatt, Robby Findler, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and a 20-person contributor group are trying to bring Racket-style extensibility beyond Lisp syntax.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Racket Blog
Why it matters
Rhombus is a reminder that not every important developer-platform bet comes from a startup. Racket's core contributors are testing whether language extensibility can matter again if the syntax barrier is removed.
Matthew Flatt, Robert Bruce Findler, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and the Racket community released Rhombus 1.0 on June 22nd, turning a long-running programming-languages research project into a production-intended language built for developers who want Racket's extensibility without writing Lisp-style parenthesized code.…
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