[erlang-questions] [ANN] efene programming language 0.1 released

[Mariano Guerra]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Essien Essien <essiene@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Mariano Guerra
> <luismarianoguerra@REDACTED> wrote:
>> efene is a programming language that runs on the erlang virtual machine.
>>
>> the idea is to provide an alternative syntax to erlang that is most
>> suitable for people coming from languages like Java, C, C++, C#,
>> Javascript.
>>
>> the language is almost 100% compatible with erlang (and will be), the
>> compiler allows to translate an efene source file into a readable
>> erlang one. It also adds some syntactic sugar in some places to make
>> some tasks easier.
>>
>> to see how it looks you can go to the examples dir[0]
>>
>> more info at efene’s main site[1] and the efene’s github page[2]
>>
>> [0] http://github.com/marianoguerra/efene/tree/master/examples/
>> [1] http://marianoguerra.com.ar/efene
>> [2] http://github.com/marianoguerra/efene/
>>
>> http://efene.tumblr.com/post/329929156/efene-0-1-released
>
> I took a look at this and loved it immedietly. The main goal of source
> to source translation seems to have been met. I'm not too sure of some
> of the syntax like that for binary, I still think I prefer the native
> erlang syntax for binary... but that's just me. all in all... very
> nice!

at this moment the syntax can be changed so any recommendation is appreciated

> Do you have any other plans for the efene itself? Maybe some
> interesting features like optional typing syntax with efene functions
> which could translate to dialyser annotations in the erlang
> sources?... something like that? That would really make it compelling.

that would be really nice, if you have some specific idea I will see
if I implement it

> Also, do you at any point want to do pure erlang vm bytecode
> generation? as opposed to erlang source code generation?

it already generates .beam files, the -t erl was just to show how
translated the code but the default us -t beam :)

> Ohh... and the Go frontend driver is pretty nice... I see why the
> language has generated soo much hoolabaloo on da intarwebs! :)

I wanted to generate a binary and I didn't wanted to fight with C strings :)