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bakkdoor
August 25, 2013
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The Fancy Programming Language - FrOSCon 2013
Talk I gave about Fancy at FrOSCon 2013 in Bonn, Germany. The talk is in German.
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Transcript
Christopher Bertels @bakkdoor http://www.fancy-lang.org
About me • Interested in programming language and their implementations
• Professionally work on • backend systems • tools • language compilers, parsers, translators ...
I love languages
So I’ve created my own.
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dynamic
pure object-oriented
class-based
reflective concurrent simple extendable minimalistic
self-hosted
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Literal Syntax
Numbers
Strings
Regular Expressions
Symbols
Arrays
Hashes
Tuples
Ranges
Blocks
Message Passing
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Message Grouping Operators
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Classes
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Flow-Control
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Dynamic Variables
Dynamic Variables • Come from Lisp • Thread-local • Dynamic
binding (runtime call stack) • Used for things like stdio • Like global variables, but way better
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Actors & Futures
Actors & Futures • Built-in support for async & future
sends • Multiple implementations, thinking about using Celluloid as default implementation • Currently using Rubinius’ Actor library • rubinius-actor gem
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Actors & Futures • @ / @@ syntax compiled into:
• Object#send_future:with_params: • Object#send_async:with_params:
Rubinius & Ruby Interop
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Tools
fspec
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fdoc
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package system
redis.fy.fancypack
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Editor Support • Emacs • Vim (not maintained by me)
• TextMate • Sublime Text
What can it be used for?
automation
“scripting”
backend systems
web development
web development
web development
distributed services
realtime computation with Storm
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Riak
Riak
Riak
Riak
Riak
$ fancy install bakkdoor/ripple.fy Riak
Redis
$ fancy install bakkdoor/redis.fy Redis
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and much more ...
and much more ...
Installation
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fancy-lang.org github.com/bakkdoor/fancy
Thanks! @bakkdoor bakkdoor.net