https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-programming-language
A static language for the JVM with sensible defaults
https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-programming-language
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A static language for the JVM with sensible defaults
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-programming-language
- Owner: ftomassetti
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2015-08-28T13:05:10.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-11-27T15:06:55.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-16T18:15:22.183Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: Java
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- Size: 2.01 MB
- Stars: 96
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 17
- Open Issues: 39
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Turin programming language
[](https://travis-ci.org/ftomassetti/turin-programming-language)
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Turin is a pragmatic static language for the JVM.
# Documentation
Available [here](http://turin-programming-language.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
# Philosophy
Programming should be about describe data, phenomenons, processes and interactions. The language should not stay in the way to let us focus on this fun and challenging task.
# Goals
The initial goal is to complement Java for a series of tasks for which it is not strongly suited. The initial focus is on the definition of datatypes with proper defaults (no need to write or generated hashCode, equals, getters and setters in most cases).
We want to be pragmatic: to start with a small language and make it usable in practice as soon as possible. To do so we are working on an [IntelliJ plugin](https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-intellij-plugin) and we plan to start working soon on a Maven plugin.
# Status
Types with properties and methods can be defined and can compiled to class files. It is possible to invoke Java from Turin and viceversa.
# Supporting tools
* [turin-maven-plugin](https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-maven-plugin)
* [turin-intellij-plugin](https://github.com/ftomassetti/turin-intellij-plugin)
# Examples
This is an example of a program (compiling & running) written in Turin.
```
namespace manga
// now print is an alias for call to all the overload variants of println on System.out
import java.lang.System.out.println as print
// we define this property in generale: a name is a String
property String : name
// this is our new datatype
type MangaCharacter {
// we refer to the property defined above
has name
// we define a new property, UInt is an unsigned int
has UInt : age
// we overload toString. For short methods it can make sense to use
// this shorthand. And we have string interpolation
String toString() = "#{name}, #{age}"
}
// this define a class with a main method
program MangaExample(String[] args) {
// type inference at work: we are instantiating the class defined above
// note that the constructor is generated for us
val ranma = MangaCharacter("Ranma", 16)
// let's call a java method ( System.out.println(String) ) and use more
// string interpolation
print("The protagonist is #{ranma}")
}
```
It prints: _The protagonist is Ranma, 16_
# Applications in Turin
So far I started working on one application in Turin. It is a [java-formatter](https://github.com/ftomassetti/java-formatter).
# License
Turin is released under the Apache License v2.0
# Contributing
All sorts of questions, advices and contributions are extremely welcome!