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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you'll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features. This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You'll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You'll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you've acquired. Additionally, you'll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Summary

Bosque is a new high-level programming language based on a new paradigm called regularized programming, which proposes eliminating accidental complexity sources.

Accidental complexity occurs during the evolutionary process of programming languages as they adapt to new contexts and implement various paradigms.

Eliminating complexity sources allows us to simplify how we write code, allowing developers to focus on the problem's core. This also enables us to write programs that are more predictable, readable, and reliable.

A simple, deterministic, and readable language is suitable for solving the challenges that new technologies bring, such as IoT development, serverless applications, and cloud-first solutions. So, Bosque could be an exciting language for your next project if you consider yourself an early adopter.

Now that you've read this chapter, we understand what the Bosque project is and what the regularized programming paradigm proposes. As a result, you have a better idea of the accidental complexity problem in the programming languages that are available today and are ready to consider Bosque as a new alternative for future projects.

In the next chapter, we will prepare our development environment so that we can start writing programs in Bosque.