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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

The entrypoint functions arise to allow developers to establish the main flow of execution of a program through a high-level function, which, when compiled, will become a set of instructions with a specific main instruction that allows the computer to follow the expected workflow.

In Bosque, the entrypoint function is more flexible than in other languages. It allows establishing input parameters and output data types, which is useful for developing serverless functions.

When writing a custom input function or having more than one, it is necessary to specify what the input function should be for the final binary through the --entrypoint parameter of the ExeGen compiler.

Finally, we have learned more about entrypoint functions. Now you are able to write your own entrypoint functions for your Bosque programs. In the next chapter, we will explore the Bosque types and operators in order to expand our knowledge of the language.