forchid / objeck-lang

Modern object-oriented and functional programming language

Objeck

Objeck is an object-oriented programming language with functional features. Objeck emphasizes, expression, simplicity, portability, and scalability. The programming environment consists of a compiler, virtual machine, and command line debugger with IDE plugins.

class Hello {
  function : Main(args : String[]) ~ Nil {
    "Hello World" → PrintLine();
    "Καλημέρα κόσμε" → PrintLine();
    "こんにちは 世界" → PrintLine();
  }
}

See more on Rosetta Code and checkout the following programming tasks.

Notable features

• Object-oriented with functional features
  • Classes, interfaces and first-class functions
  • Generics with type boxing
  • Anonymous classes
  • Reflection
  • Object serialization
  • Type inference
  • Lambda expressions
  • Closures
• Libraries
  • Collections (vectors, queues, trees, hashes, etc.)
  • HTTP and HTTPS client and SSL server support
  • RegEx
  • JSON, XML and CSV parsers
  • Encryption
  • Database access
  • Query framework
  • 2D Gaming framework
• Native support for threads, sockets, files, date/time, etc.
• Garbage collection
• JIT support for all targets
  • arm64: Linux, macOS (Apple silicon)
  • x86-64: Linux, macOS and Windows

Documentation

Please refer to the programmer's guide documentation and online tutorial. Also checkout Rosetta Code examples.

Screenshots

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Platform Architecture

• Compiler
• Virtual Machine
• Debugger
• Memory manager
• Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler

Building on Linux and macOS

• Install required libraries: sudo apt-get install build-essential git libssl-dev unixodbc-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libreadline-dev unzip
• cd to objeck-lang/core/release and run ./deploy_posix.sh with the parameter 64 or macos for x64 Linux or macOS
• Build output with binaries and documentation will be located in objeck-lang/core/release/deploy
• Reference objeck-lang/core/release/deploy/readme.html to set addtional paths and find examples

Building on Windows

• Unzip the OpenSSL Windows libraries in objeck-lang/core/lib/openssl/win/x64
• Using Visual Studio 2022 or later open objeck-lang/core/release/objeck.sln
• Ensure the core build completes successfully (in Release mode)
• To build everything, open a Visual Studio x64 command prompt and go to objeck-lang/core/release directory and run deploy_amd64.cmd
• Build output with binaries and documentation will be located in objeck-lang/core/release/deploy64
• Reference objeck-lang/core/release/deploy64/readme.html to learn how to set the environment variables and find code examples

Building under MSYS2 on Windows

• Under the UCRT64 shell (best MSYS2 Unicode support)
  • Package dependencies
  • pacman --noconfirm -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-openssl make mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2 unzip mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2_ttf mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2_mixer mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-unixodbc
  • cd to objeck-lang/core/release and run ./deploy_msys2-ucrt.sh
  • Build output with binaries and documentation will be located in objeck-lang/core/release/deploy-msys2-ucrt
  • Set the path for to the UCRT64 'bin' directory
  • Reference objeck-lang/core/release/deploy-msys2-ucrt/readme.html to set additional paths and find examples
• Under the Clang64
  • Package dependencies
  • pacman --noconfirm -S mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-openssl make mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-SDL2 unzip mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-SDL2_ttf mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-SDL2_mixer mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-SDL2_image mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-unixodbc
  • cd to objeck-lang/core/release and run ./deploy_msys2-clang.sh
  • Build output with binaries and documentation will be located in objeck-lang/core/release/deploy-msys2-clang
  • Set the path for to the Clang64 'bin' directory
  • Reference objeck-lang/core/release/deploy-msys2-clang/readme.html to set additional paths and find examples