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There was some interesting discussion which data structure to use for Rhombus: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/discussions/221

comment by azhenley · 2026-06-25 · in RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors (2012) [pdf]

A metacircular interpreter in Rhombus: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/rhombus/rhombu... Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable. https://rhombus-lang.org

comment by spdegabrielle · 2026-06-16 · in A Metacircular Interpreter in Rhombus

…syntax Official docs: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html Collection of small examples: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/demo.rhm

comment by gus_massa · 2026-05-22 · in I keep bouncing off the Scheme language

…is Rhombus, which is based on Racket, and actually on track to replace it. what it looks like: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/demo.rhm more info: https://doi.org/10.1145/3622818 https://github.com/racket/rhombus

comment by makizar · 2024-11-30 · in Show HN: Indentation-based syntax for Clojure

…new languages :-) Language adoption takes time. Besides Rhombus is still in the integration phase https://github.com/racket/rhombus/discussions/521

comment by soegaard · 2024-11-28 · in Janet for Mortals (2023)

It's supposed to take a couple of minutes. Please file a bug report so this can be tracked down. https://github.com/racket/rhombus

comment by soegaard · 2024-08-05 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

All: we've changed the URL from https://github.com/racket/rhombus/discussions/521 to the base link suggested by commenters. Thanks! Also related: Rhombus-in-the-Rough - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075516 - May 2023 (1 comment)…

comment by dang · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

And here's a non-trivial example of how it looks/feels. https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm

comment by pas · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

…docs for that thing, because the docs are super verbose and hard to navigate, and too dry, IMHO): https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm

comment by pas · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

…how easy it is to figure out the arguments/types. (But it's rhombus/static, which is encouraging!) https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/gui_demo.rhm

comment by pas · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

This says more of that sort of thing: https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/resources/plan...

comment by mkl · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

…for me is a good thing!) more like an Elixir feel (cute syntax for some great concepts behind) see https://github.com/racket/rhombus/blob/master/demo.rhm

comment by OriPekelman · 2024-08-04 · in Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket

…you can install and run the prototype. I recomend to take a look at the "demo" file with examples https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype/blob/master/demo... Or read the docs https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html , in…

comment by gus_massa · 2024-05-13 · in Homoiconic Python

…But the biggest issue is the community itself [2] and that isn’t going to change any time soon. 1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype/blob/master/reso... 1. https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contrib...

comment by zitterbewegung · 2022-05-24 · in Racket Is an Acceptable Python (2019)

…while still providing a surface syntax familiar to users of these features in other languages. 1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype/blob/master/reso...

comment by Decabytes · 2022-04-27 · in Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly

…on generic collections, with a link to a blog post comparing Racket and Clojure from 2010. 1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype/blob/master/reso... 2. http://programming-puzzler.blogspot.com/2010/08/racket-vs-cl...

comment by Decabytes · 2022-03-23 · in Clojure 1.11 is now available

…mainly by the academic group working on it, with some attention shifting to the new Rhombus project https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype These days everything looks like it's using json/yaml and trying to add logic/constraints to it…

comment by JimmyRuska · 2022-02-27 · in Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?

…2. https://github.com/rjnw/sham 3. https://github.com/ShawSumma/lure 4. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype 5. https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett

comment by Decabytes · 2022-02-26 · in So you want to design a programming language (2017)

…the extensibility of a parens based language, with infix notation and a different surface syntax 1. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-prototype

comment by Decabytes · 2021-12-10 · in Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (2018)

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…

comment by samdphillips · 2021-08-14 · in Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)

…bugs. They are still in the brainstorming phase and you can look at the issues in this GitHub link https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming to see what is being discussed 1. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/02/racket-v8-0.html

comment by Decabytes · 2021-08-14 · in Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)

…seem to have really taken off. See https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/thoughts-on-rhombus.htm... https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming

comment by codesections · 2021-08-14 · in Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)

https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming

comment by soegaard · 2021-04-10 · in Lisp as an alternative to Java (2000)

The most recent proposal is https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming/pull/122

comment by samth · 2021-02-14 · in Racket v8.0

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

comment by bjoli · 2021-02-14 · in Racket v8.0

racket rhombus will attempt that. https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming

comment by rscho · 2019-12-20 · in Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012)