TranScript SDK

TranScript is a dynamically-typed object-oriented language that is designed with ease of use, flexibility and efficiency in mind. Efforts have been made so that extending programs written in Go with TranScript is very straightforward.

Features:

- Support for functional, imperative, object-oriented approaches.
- Good concurrency support.
- Fast dynamic object system.
- API makes it straightforward to extend Go programs with scripting 
  capabilities.
- Functions are first-class values with lexical scope.
- Algol-derived syntax.
- Dynamically typed.
- Tail call optimisation.
- Support for meta-weirdness with __callFailed__() etc.

Like most dynamic languages, TranScript is primarily influenced by Smalltalk and Lisp (in particular Scheme). TranScript is object-oriented. Everything in TranScript is an object. Objects are instances of classes. Classes describe objects. Classes are themselves (immutable) objects.

Install

 go get github.com/bobappleyard/ts

Installs the TranScript SDK. You may need to be root to do this.

Components:

- Framework for compiling and interpreting TranScript code (ts)
- Simple parser framework (ts/parse)
- Bytecode specification (ts/bytecode)
- Extensions to the language (ts/ext...)

Use

Below is an example interpreter that uses all of the provided extensions.

package main

import  (
	"github.com/bobappleyard/ts"
	_ "github.com/bobappleyard/ts/ext"
)

func main() {
	i := ts.New()
	i.Repl()
}

A more feature-rich interpreter is available from:

http://www.github.com/bobappleyard/tsi

Read more

Running godoc will give you a run-down of the functions, types etc defined by the distribution.

Version History

0.4 -- reflection API, properties, varargs 0.3 -- packages, inner classes, anonymous classes
0.2 -- local variables, private & protected members
0.1 -- basic model