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For the past three months, I have been developing a prototype for a
new programming language called P* (P-star). The language targets to
make life easier when it comes to web programming. P* has
in-language syntax for things like SQL prepared statements and HTML
templates. The P* interpreter is written in C++11, and currently implements enough language features to create full web pages. The codebase is about 10 000 lines, and it's only tested on Debian. Maybe you will find this project interesting and can join in to develop P* further. You can also try running it, creating a few web pages and finding some bugs. I could also need som help with project management, as I'm used to managing only myself :). P* language details : - Basic syntax based on the C language - Run as scripts by the interpreter (written in C++11) - User must define types for variables, but conversion between primitives is done implicitly - Support for dynamic arrays and hash maps - In-lanugage string type with concatenation operator and double quote variable interpolation - Special SCENE blocks are used instead of classes and functions for the main blocks of the program. - Special HTML_TEMPLATE blocks are used to hold HTML code, these support advanced interpolation - Special blocks inherit the namespace with all variables from where they are called - JSON output of variables from HTML templates with automatic recognition of HTML element IDs. - MySQL database access with simple syntax for prepared statements - Not full object-orientation support yet, but structs with functions are supported P* Hello World! #!/usr/bin/wpl -f SCENE main { echo "Hello World!\n"; } Please visit the web page and check-out the documentation. It covers most of the language with examples. http://www.p-star.org The code is GPLv3-licenced, and is available on Github: https://github.com/atlesn/P-star I have created two mailing lists, one for developers and one for users: p-star-dev@googlegroups.com p-star-users@googlegroups.com Please let me know if you find P* interesting, or if you have any suggestions. Thank you Atle Solbakken |