I disliked the “Racket2” name because it strongly implied that Racket 1 (the one with parentheses on the outside and few commas) was the past, and that something with a vaguely Algol-ish syntax was the future.

But Racket as a project was always about language experiments. I certainly didn’t bristle at Typed Racket or any of the other languages. And so, in changing “Racket 2” to “Rhombus” and committing to mainline support of Racket, I feel pretty comfortable with the direction. I find this fascinating that I feel this way given that nothing has really changed but the name.