Racket

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Languages & Frameworks

A programming language ecosystem and community associated with Rhombus development.

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Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 50%.

3Hacker News·10/1/2026research
RacketCon 2026 Takes Place October 3-4 in Oakland
RacketCon 2026, the sixteenth edition of the Racket community conference, will be held October 3-4 in Oakland, California. The event will include talks on Racket, Rhombus, Typed Racket, and related language-oriented programming work, with in-person attendance, livestreaming, and later YouTube recordings.
3Hacker News·8/22/2026research
A Friendly Introduction to Racket
The article introduces Racket through a short history of Lisp, Scheme, and Racket, emphasizing Lisp’s influence on modern programming ideas such as REPLs, first-class functions, and homoiconicity. It also positions Racket as a language for building languages and points readers to its installation and interactive development environment, DrRacket.
4Hacker News·8/17/2026framework_update
Rhombus 1.1 Released
Rhombus 1.1 is now available, adding new annotation forms, a new binding form, and changes to class inheritance name binding and scope handling. The release also includes updates to FFI, pict rendering behavior, and slideshow features such as slide transitions and continued page numbering.
6Simon Willison·7/14/2026open_source
Lobsters completes migration to SQLite
The community site Lobsters has finished moving from MariaDB to SQLite after years of planning and testing. The new setup runs on a single VPS and is reported to reduce CPU usage, memory usage, and hosting costs while improving responsiveness.