Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable.

For an overview of Rhombus's goals and design, see

• Rhombus Goals

• Documentation as rendered by the Racket package-build service

• OOPSLA'23 paper or the talk video

This repository houses the Racket packages that make up the current Rhombus implementation.

Trying Rhombus

See Getting Started with Rhombus → Quick Start → Rhombus Download.

As the download page explains, you can get a Rhombus distribution, which is a Racket distribution that is bundled with Rhombus packages, or you can start with Racket and install the package rhombus through DrRacket's "Install Package..." menu item or on the command line with

raco pkg install rhombus

More precisely, the rhombus-main package has everything that is included in a Rhombus distribution, but rhombus provides the basics.

Other Resources

• Project plan

• General discussion

• Older resources

Participation

Anyone can participate in Rhombus design discussions. The Racket team's unofficial motto is anything we can do, you can do: programmers should feel empowered to participate in the creation of the languages they use. Discussions, pull requests, and issues are open to all, and a wide variety of perspectives is especially beneficial.

Issues and Pull Requests

GitHub issues are for bug reports and feature ideas, and pull requests are for bug-fix candidates and other concrete proposals.

Conversations as Discussion

GitHub discussions provide a forum for discussing Rhombus broadly, as opposed to discusssing details of specific proposals.

Community

Find other Rhombus users on the Racket Discord's #rhombus channel or on the Racket Discourse forum.

More Information

See the Rhombus web page for more information and resources.