rhombus-brainstorming VS imgmac

The Racket team has been embarking on the Rhombus project with something they're calling shrubbery notation. The most recent Racket Con (https://con.racket-lang.org/) has several presentations on the topic, and there's a GitHub repo (https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming) tracking discussion. For what it's worth, I strongly dislike the heavy use of : in this notation.

Once you become a skeptic, other warts began to appear such as the culture (1,2) of the language and one of the active academic members putting a lot of effort into changing the syntax. I concluded that I might as well spend my time just learning common lisp as then I might have a tool I could use. Everything is old in common lisp, and I am coming to recognize that as a good thing. Re-inventing the wheel is not always useful, and a few libraries that everyone uses means they probably function and build.

Matthew has been working on a [prototype](https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming/pull/163) that works on the current snapshot version of Racket.

It is possible to use to write some basic things and most existing Racket libraries are usable with the prototype.

It is called rhombus and there is an open discussion going on at https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming

rhombus-brainstorming

If anyone cares the code is here. Still needs a lot of work. https://gitlab.com/diegocrespo/imgmac/-/tree/master. For context this is a paint program that currently creates a 1024x748 window with a canvas, 31 buttons, and a file menu. It uses 280M of memory on my desktop running Manjaro, which isn't the greatest. In my testing, typed racket also increases the memory uses.

Thankfully after creating a basic frame and canvas, the jumps haven't been as big, but I could easily see the program going to 400M by the time it's done. I will download Racket 8.0 today and see how it performs