[ANN] Shine-0.0.2 - A Shiny Lua Dialect
- From: Richard Hundt <richardhundt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:33:30 +0100
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the first earlyrelease 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 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 has 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
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