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Rhombus 1.1 is now available

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Why This Matters

Rhombus 1.1 introduces new features and improvements that enhance its flexibility and usability, making it more accessible for developers to customize and extend. This release underscores the ongoing commitment to community-driven development and open collaboration within the programming language ecosystem, benefiting both industry professionals and enthusiasts.

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Rhombus v1.1

Rhombus version 1.1 is now available!

We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/.

Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable.

As of this release:

Add annot and annot.def as ways to define an annotation without directly writing meta-time (i.e., macro) code.

Add as as a binding form, which is sometimes more readable for naming than using && and provides a way to shadow an identifier that is bound as a binding form.

Change class to bind inherited names using the corresponding superclass or interface reference.

Change space.enforest to adjust scopes in the same way as for a macro transformer when applying an identifier handler.

ffi: Add an initialized-array variant of new .

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