introduction
Back in the day most people could not write. If you needed something written, you would hire a scribe, and they would write it down. Scribes were people trained in special institutions in writing.
Eventually more people were able to write, and writing started being used as the extension of one's mind. It is hard to multiply eight-digit number in mind, but it's easy to do on paper. Writing allows us to think thoughts we could not think before.
Nowadays most people can not program. If you need something programmed, you hire a developer, and they would program it. Developers are people trained in special institutions in programming.
Eventually more people will be able to program, and programing will be used an extension of one's mind. There is plethora of tasks hard to do in mind or on paper, but it's easy to let a computer do it. Programing allows us to think thoughts we could not think before.
vlow's goal is to aid in that
Programing in vlow should be as easy as sketching on paper ¶
We aim to develop a universally applicable language that is easy to start working with and easy to reason about.
vlowis to be a universally applicableby compiling
vlowto native executables there are no restriction wherevlowcode can be used: be it a webservice, or a simple gui toolgraphical language
as those have a reputation of being easy to get started for non-technical people, by eliminating the burden of syntax and typos
using the dataflow oriented paradigm
as this is a pattern that is natural to think and reason about
having a strong static type-system, with powerful generic and templating system
as this will prevent a lot of mistakes and allows for great autocompletion and development time code checks
and strong tooling support
an IDE, a debugger, version control support, testing frameworks are essential for a language to ever hope to hold its own
Development ¶
Currently vlow is in no shape to be presented to the world, but we strive to post bi-weekly updates on this blog.