Lush was an interactive Racket shell I started working on this summer to learn Racket. As it turns out there is already a shell called Lush, the Lisp Universal Shell. So I decided on renaming the project to Rain: the Racket Interactive Shell.

Along with the renaming I decided to make the latest feature public. The first version of code completion just picked one completion for you and filled in the remaining characters in a light grey text next to the characters you were typing. I started working on an ncurses-like interface, and the first feature is a dropdown listbox that shows all the possible completions similar to completion widgets in other IDEs.

To learn more, check out Rain’s documentation. You can view its source and also get the latest release there.