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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

What we should expect in the next versions

As with any language in the middle of the development and experimentation process, some characteristics outlined in this book may eventually change in favor of further improvements to the language, so it is crucial to be attentive to the announcements of changes in the official repository of the project at https://github.com/microsoft/BosqueLanguage.

Let's see some big proposals for the next versions that are not yet confirmed, but that have been mentioned in the project repository discussion threads:

  • It is expected that there may be more official documentation, as currently this is scarce and forces the developer to explore the code to understand some of the language implementations.
  • Eventually, it will be possible to package and import third-party libraries so that we can use more pre-designed solutions when building our applications.
  • It is theorized that Bosque scripts can be transpiled into C code, which would open...