https://github.com/tarcieri/reia

Ruby-like hybrid OOP/functional programming language for BEAM, the Erlang VM
https://github.com/tarcieri/reia

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Ruby-like hybrid OOP/functional programming language for BEAM, the Erlang VM

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tarcieri/reia
• Owner: tarcieri
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2008-03-21T18:48:17.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-07-05T17:41:47.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-28T08:36:44.347Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Erlang
• Homepage: http://reia-lang.org
• Size: 11.2 MB
• Stars: 777
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 41
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Reia

====

FYI: Reia is defunct. No additional work on it is planned. If you are

interested in the ideas behind Reia, I strongly suggest you check out

the Elixir language, which is now in a more mature stage of development

than Reia:

[https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir](https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir)

About

-----

Welcome to Reia (pronounced RAY-uh), a Ruby-like scripting language for the 

Erlang virtual machine (BEAM).

Want to know more about Reia? Syntax examples and that sort of thing? Please

visit the home page at:

[http://reia-lang.org](http://reia-lang.org)

Compiling Reia

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Reia requires Erlang version R12B-3 (5.6.3) or later. The latest version of 

Erlang is available here:

[http://www.erlang.org/download.html](http://www.erlang.org/download.html)

You'll also need Ruby and Rake installed.  To compile Reia, type:

   rake

After compilation is complete, you'll see the test suite run and if everything

went well it should hopefully pass.

Implementation

--------------

Here's some thoroughly interesting implementation trivia about Reia:

* Leex-based scanner

* Yecc-based grammar (a Neotoma-based branch is also available)

* Successive parse transforms convert Reia parse trees into the Erlang abstract

  format, then into BEAM/HiPE bytecode

Links

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* Home Page: [http://reia-lang.org](http://reia-lang.org)

* Reia Wiki: [http://wiki.reia-lang.org/](http://wiki.reia-lang.org/)

* Mailing List: [http://groups.google.com/group/reia](http://groups.google.com/group/reia)

* Author's Blog: [http://unlimitednovelty.com/](http://unlimitednovelty.com/)

* Author's Twitter: [http://twitter.com/bascule](http://twitter.com/bascule)

* IRC: irc.freenode.net #reia

About the Author

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Reia was created by Tony Arcieri, a programmer from Denver, Colorado, USA.

Tony has a background in network services and distributed peer-to-peer 

systems. His favorite programming languages are Ruby and Erlang.