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i think it's more than just an academic research product. all of these efforts and more are the core racket team looking into replacing racket's syntax, in part

i think it's more than just an academic research product. all of these efforts and more are the core racket team looking into replacing racket's syntax, in particular its parenthetical syntax. they have explicitly stated that they want to and will do so. so honu isn't a lisp replacement, but it is one evolution and inspiration for getting rid of the lispy syntax of racket.

DonaldPShimoda 7y ago
Honu is from 2012. Its primary purpose at the time was to explore syntactic macros in languages with infix expressions. It was not explicitly about identifying alternatives for Racket's future development, as far as I've been made aware. (I've talked about this paper with Matthew before.) It's also worth pointing out that Racket isn't going anywhere; it will always have parenthetical syntax. The future project being worked on is now called Rhombus to disambiguate it from Racket's past. Racket will not be replaced by Rhombus.