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What is Rip

Rip is a general purpose programming language. It is a functional language with an object-oriented syntax. All objects are immutable, so it might help to think of objects as collections of partially-applied functions.

Development Status

In progress. Use at your own risk. Nothing works yet!

License

Rip is released under the MIT license. Please see LICENSE.markdown for more details.

(Planned) Features

• no globals (except for a short list of pre-defined references)
• robust object literal syntax for many constructs, including date/time and unit values
• lexical scoping
• type inference
• static name resolution
• tail call optimization
• lazy iteration
• first-class types and lambdas (types and lambdas may be passed around and assigned to references/properties just like any other object)
• multiple inheritance (super types are flattened into a simple list of ancestors when a new type is defined)
• implicit returns from last statement in a block or module
• qualified imports via System.require (uses load path)
• exception handling
• pattern matching

Getting Started

Rip is currently implemented as an interpreter written in Ruby. Likely any recent version will due. Eventually Rip will be implemented as a front-end for LLVM (implemented in itself).

Quick start (users):

0. Download an appropriate prepackaged executable from the release page. 0. If a download isn't available for your platform, try following the contributer instructions below.
1. Extract the archive somewhere, like ~/bin/rip.
2. The rip executable will be in ~/bin/rip, so you'll want to add that directory to your $PATH.
3. $ rip help

Quick start (contributers):

0. Install Ruby 2. I use rbenv and ruby-build, but use whatever floats your boat. 0. Rip uses Traveling Ruby to provide all-in-one packages, so you should install the version specified in .ruby-version.
1. $ git clone git://github.com/rip-lang/rip.git
2. $ cd rip
3. $ bundle install
4. $ ./bin/rip help

Getting Help

If you find a bug or have any other issue, please open a ticket. You should include as many details as reasonably possible, such as operating system, Ruby version (ruby --version), the Rip source code that broke et cetera.

Contributing

Patches are most welcome! Please make changes in a feature branch that merges into master cleanly. Existing tests should not break, and new code needs new tests.

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