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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

Appendix A: Advanced Topics

In this appendix, we will show what the Bosque project structure looks like, describe its internals, and show you how you can contribute to the project. Since the project is still under heavy development, lacking certain implementations, and with bugs and feature requests still present, everyone is welcome to improve the language with their own contributions. This appendix is rather introductory so you won’t have much to do here. Instead, you will learn where to find the source code, understand its overall structure, and see how to make your own changes and suggestions.

Here is a list of topics that we are going to cover:

  • Discovering the Bosque source code and the project structure
  • Learning how to report bugs and feature requests
  • Learning how to contribute

At the end of this appendix, you will know what the process of designing a new programming language looks like. You will also be familiar with the code structure of the...