Re: [ANN] Shine-0.0.2 - A Shiny Lua Dialect
- From: Юрий Соколов <funny.falcon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:46:27 +0400
How often it synced with liquor development?
29.03.2014 3:45 пользователь "Richard Hundt" <richardhundt@xxxxxxxxx>
написал:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the first early release of Shine [1].
>
> Shine is a programming language which is a loose super-set of Lua, and
> is built on TvmJIT [2], a modified version of LuaJIT by François Perrad.
>
> The project - initially under the unpronounceable working name of Nyanga
> - grew out of seeing common requests for additions to the Lua language,
> such as a continue statement, ranges, default function parameters and
> shorthand arithmetic assignment expressions (x += 1), to name a few.
>
> The language and runtime have since grown further to include many
> additional features, some of which are experimental, and all of which
> I'm happy to take feedback on. And because I still love Lua, Shine runs
> vanilla Lua just fine.
>
> Notable extensions to Lua include:
>
> * Bitwise operators.
> * Standard libraries (mostly FFI based).
> * LPeg language integration.
> * Classes and modules .
> * `continue` statement.
> * `try`, `catch`, `finally`
> * Destructuring assignment.
> * Pattern matching.
> * Default function parameters.
> * Function parameter guards.
> * Richer type system.
> * Concurrency primitives
> * OS Threads (experimental)
>
> Shine currently compiles on OS X and Linux. Work is under way on getting
> it to compile on MinGW.
>
> [1] https://github.com/richardhundt/shine
> [2] https://github.com/fperrad/tvmjit
>
> Feedback welcome!
>
> Kind regards,
> Richard
>
>
>
Other related posts:
