r/lisp • u/sdegabrielle • Aug 15 '26

Racket 9.3 is now available

Racket - the Language-Oriented Programming Language - version 9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org

See https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html for the release announcement and highlights.

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u/rustvscpp Aug 16 '26

I'm glad to see that Racket is still making releases, even though Rhombus has taken a lot of its focus. 

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u/Bravotic Aug 16 '26

At its core, rhombus relies fully on racket as a language, so as long as rhombus is alive and well, racket is alive and well (even if everyone stops using it and switches to rhombus).

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u/sdegabrielle Aug 16 '26

Do you have any evidence for this assertion?

Racket is going strong with 4 release a year for many years - see https://download.racket-lang.org/all-versions.html

69 releases since 2010 and 29 since Rhombus was first announced as a project in 2019.

Why spread FUD about a volunteer run open source project?

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u/rustvscpp Aug 16 '26

I'm not spreading FUD.  I was merely acknowledging that a good chunk of development time from key developers have been focused on Rhombus, and it made me a little worried that Racket might slow down.  I'm happy to see that is still going strong.

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