Calcit Scripting Language

Lisp compiling to JavaScript ES Modules. (Similar to ClojureScript, but in very different syntax.)

• Home http://calcit-lang.org/
• API Doc(heavily influenced by ClojureScript) http://apis.calcit-lang.org/
• Dev Logs https://github.com/calcit-lang/calcit_runner.rs/discussions
• 视频记录 https://space.bilibili.com/14227306/channel/seriesdetail?sid=281171

Browse examples or also try WASM version online.

Install

Build and install with Rust:

```bash

get Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

get Calcit

git clone git@github.com:calcit-lang/calcit_runner.rs.git calcit/ cd calcit/ cargo install --path=./ ```

For Ubuntu 20.04, try binaries from http://bin.calcit-lang.org/linux/ , which are provided for CI usages.

Usage

Run:

```bash cr compact.cirru --1 # run only once

cr compact.cirru # watch mode enabled by default

cr compact.cirru --init-fn='app.main/main!' # specifying init-fn ```

Inline evaling:

```bash cr -e 'range 100'

multi-lines snippet

cr -e '

println "|a demo"

-> range 100 map $ fn (x) * x x

' ```

Emitting code:

``bash cr compact.cirru --emit-js # compile to js cr compact.cirru --emit-js --emit-path=out/ # compile to js and save inout/`

cr compact.cirru --emit-ir # compiles intermediate representation into program-ir.cirru ```

Calcit Editor & Bundler

Install Calcit Editor and run ct to launch editor server, which writes compact.cirru and .compact-inc.cirru on saving. Try launching example by clong Calcit Workflow.

Read more in Minimal Calcit to learn how to code Calcit with a plain text editor.

Read more in Respo Calcit Workflow to learn to create an MVC webpage with Respo.

Modules

No package manager yet, need to manage modules with git tags.

Configurations inside calcit.cirru and compact.cirru:

cirru :configs $ {} :modules $ [] |memof/compact.cirru |lilac/

Paths defined in :modules field are just loaded as files from ~/.config/calcit/modules/, i.e. ~/.config/calcit/modules/memof/compact.cirru.

Modules that ends with /s are automatically suffixed compact.cirru since it's the default filename.

To load modules in CI environments, make use of git clone.

Web Frameworks:

• Respo - tiny Virtual DOM library
• Phlox - wraps PIXI.js in Virtual DOM style
• Quamolit - wraps Three.js in Virtual DOM style
• Quatrefoil - Canvas API in virtual DOM style, with ticking rendering

Mini libraries:

• Lilac, data validation tool
• Memof, caching tool
• Recollect, diffing tool
• Calcit Test, testing tool
• Bisection Key, ...
• Lilac Parser, string parsing tool

Extensions

Rust supports extending with dynamic libraries, found an example in dylib-workflow. Currently there are some early extensions:

• Std - some collections of util functions
• WebSocket server binding
• HTTP client binding
• HTTP server binding
• Wasmtime binding
• Canvas demo

Development

I use these commands to run local examples:

```bash

run tests in Rust

cargo run --bin cr -- calcit/test.cirru -1

run tests in Node.js

cargo run --bin cr -- calcit/test.cirru --emit-js -1 && yarn try-js

run snippet

cargo run --bin cr -- -e 'range 100' ```

• Cirru Parser for indentation-based syntax parsing.
• Cirru EDN for compact.cirru file parsing.
• Ternary Tree for immutable list data structure.

Other tools:

• Error Viewer for displaying .calcit-error.cirru
• IR Viewer for rendering program-ir.cirru

License

MIT