Rhombus: Status Update - Matthew Flatt - RacketCon 2023

Matthew Flatt demonstrates the current version of Rhombus, which is a new
programming language that seamlessly integrates Racket's powerful macro system
with a conventional infix syntax. Rhombus's goal is to make Racket's macro
capabilities more accessible: through the use of conventional syntax, by
unifying more programming and metaprogramming constructs (e.g., using `match`
for data and for code), and by packaging common patterns for macro primitives
into out-of-the-box coordination facilities (e.g., macro-extensible binding
positions). Through live coding on example programs, Matthew demonstrates how
Rhombus features work together to define a convenient and expressive
programming language.
con.racket-lang.org

[@JohnCowan-rv7ne]

maybe Rhombus should distinguish between a-b (hyphen) and a - b (minus) by requiring spaces around the binary operators.

[@georgerogers1166]

Julia/dylan/swindle style multimethods would be awesome.

[@aoeu256]

How difficult is to use Rhombus with Python/Julia/Haskell/Clojure? Each of those seems to have an s-expression syntax (Hy for Python/ Liskell for Haskell), but dunno how those languages semantics are different from Racket Scheme. Julia itself is like Rhombus and Dylan a infix version of Lisp.

[@UristMcLisper]

5:10 semiweekly, forthnightly