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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

Installing a C++ compiler

After fulfilling the prerequisites, it is time to install a C++ compiler. This component is required for generating executable binaries from the Bosque source code. It is described in more detail later on in this chapter. By default, Bosque tools expect the Clang compiler on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but if you wish to use a different one, or if you already have a C++ compiler installed on your system, this is also fine. If this is the case, you can skip this section completely and jump straight into the Installing Bosque section.

Important note

If you choose not to use the default Clang compiler, you will have to add the --compiler option when compiling programs using the exegen command. It is described at the end of the chapter, in the ExeGen – Ahead-of-time Bosque compilation section.

In order to install the Clang compiler, you should install something called LLVM. This is a collection of components that are used to optimize and generate...