Reia Programming Language

From Reia

Reia (pronounced RAY-uh) is a Python/Ruby-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Reia aims to expose all the features and functionality of Erlang in a language more familiar to programmers of scripting languages, while improving string handling, regular expressions, linking with external libraries, and other tasks which are generally considered outside the scope of Erlang. Reia is distributed under the MIT License.

If you're interested in trying out Reia, check out Reia on Github and sign up for the mailing list.

Contents 1 Getting Started 2 Background 3 Language reference 3.1 Core language 3.2 Object orientation 4 Hackers Guide 5 Contributing to the project

Getting Started

• Getting the sources
• Building Reia
• Installing Reia
• Quickstart / Tutorial

Background

• Philosophy
• Why Reia?
• FAQ
• Roadmap
• Visual identity

Language reference

Core language

• Indentation sensitivity
• Data types
• Operators
• Flow control
• Lambdas and blocks
• Pattern matching
• List comprehensions
• Exceptions
• Erlang interfacing

Object orientation

• Classes and objects
• Methods

Hackers Guide

• Implementation Overview
• Compiler

Contributing to the project

• Feature suggestions
• Reia Coding Conventions
• To-do list
• Contribution Wishlist