Soya Programming Language

Jun Gong ([email protected])

Introduction

Soya is a programming language running on JVM. It has following features:

• Intuitive Syntax
• OOP features
• Functional Programming features
• Support many basic type literals (ex. collection, regular expression, file, url, date)
• Pattern Matching features
• Exception Handling
• Advanced Assignment

Soya has some syntax like this:

lst := [1, 3, 'Apple', 'Peter', 2, 'House', 14]
lst[String] = 'X'
lst[int v] = v * 2
println(lst)  // Output: [2, 6, "X", "X", 4, "X", 28]

A more complex sample:

users :=
   * name: 'Peter'
     age: 16
   * name: 'Marry'
     age: 12
   * name: 'Scott'
     age: 78

users[age: 14..100].each { println(it.name) }

// Output:
// Peter
// Scott

users.each {
   match it
     | age: 0..50   -> println("{it.name} is young")
     | age: 50..100 ->  println("{it.name} is old")
}

// Output:
// Peter is young
// Marry is young
// Scott is old

Build and Install

To build everything using Gradle (the command below will download Gradle automatically, you do not need to download it first).

./gradlew installSoya

This will build project and generate the build/install folder, it contains soya jars, documentation, license and samples.

To build from IntelliJ IDEA:

./gradlew idea

Then open the generated project in IDEA.

To build from Eclipse:

./gradlew eclipse

Then import the generated project in Eclipse.

How to contribute

Forking and sending a pull request: https://github.com/mySingleLive/soya.

Discussion: https://github.com/mySingleLive/soya/issues.

License (BSD License)

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Jun Gong