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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

In this chapter, we have applied the concepts learned in the previous chapters such as entrypoints, nominal type system, core types, operators, and statements to be able to build a web service that allows us to calculate a device's position within an area using the signal strength captured from three access points, which could be Wi-Fi routers.

This represents one of our first applications in a real-world scenario of the knowledge we've acquired so far. We also have learned how to present our Bosque programs as consumable web services and ready to be deployed to our cloud servers. You can use this acquired experience as a reference for the elaboration of your own personal projects.

In the next chapter, we will review a set of Bosque expressions, starting from the most frequent expressions in other languages, such as arguments or scoped access, until we reach the most specific Bosque expressions, such as type projection and PCode constructors.