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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

ExeGen – Ahead-of-time Bosque compilation

I have mentioned the ExeGen tool a few times before. It's time to take a closer look at this in more detail to see how it works and how to use it.

Remember when you ran the following command during Bosque installation?

$ npm run make-exe

This command creates the exegen alias command, which runs the ExeGen tool with the provided parameters. We will go through the supported list of parameters with an explanation of what they do, but first, let's clarify what this program is and how it works.

Basically, ExeGen is a simple command-line tool that takes a .bsq file as an input and produces an executable binary as an output. Its internal logic is a bit more complex than it sounds, though. Roughly speaking, the tool first generates an assembly from an input .bsq file. Then, it emits a C++ code based on the preprocessed assembly. In the end, it runs a C++ compiler that produces an executable binary.

Such a compilation...