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| ⚫ | Onyx is a WebAssembly-first language (`app.wasm`). WebAssembly can be used inside of a browser but is also growing in popularity in runtimes (such as Onyx provides itself) outside of the browser, in part due to projects like Wasmer, Wasmtime, and WasmEdge. These "controlled environments" could be game engines, where WASM is used as a "script" system; cloud functions, where WASM is used to respond to requests; plug-in systems for editors or tools. |
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Onyx is a WebAssembly first language. Onyx aims to make it as easy as possible to start working with WebAssembly. For that reason, Onyx is very well suited for the niche kinds of projects that require using WebAssembly. |
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Onyx uses a modernized C-like syntax, similar to Jai or Odin. Onyx is an imperative and procedural language in which statement are evaluated in the order they are written in, but does allow for functional-inspired syntax using the pipe operator. |
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| ⚫ | WebAssembly is growing in popularity outside of the browser |
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For example: |
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Onyx is an imperative language. You write a sequence of statements that should be executed in the specified order to evaluate your program. This is my preferred style of programming so it is what I made Onyx. |
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```c |
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use core { printf, iter } |
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main :: () { |
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However, I do enjoy the simplicity of a functional language. The idea of expressing a computation at a higher level appeals to me. Instead of writing a bunch of for-loops, you express what you want to happen, instead of how it should happen. |
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for i in 1 .. 10 { |
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fact := factorial(i); |
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printf("{}! = {}\n", i, fact); |
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} |
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} |
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factorial :: (n: i32) -> i32 { |
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For this reason, Onyx does have functional-inspired features that make that style of programming accessible. |
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return iter.as_iter(1 .. n) |
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|> iter.fold(1, (x, y) => x * y); |
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} |
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``` |
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Onyx is a WebAssembly-first language (`app.wasm`). WebAssembly can be used inside of a browser but is also growing in popularity in runtimes (such as Onyx provides itself) outside of the browser, in part due to projects like Wasmer, Wasmtime, and WasmEdge. These "controlled environments" could be game engines, where WASM is used as a "script" system; cloud functions, where WASM is used to respond to requests; plug-in systems for editors or tools.
Onyx uses a modernized C-like syntax, similar to Jai or Odin. Onyx is an imperative and procedural language in which statement are evaluated in the order they are written in, but does allow for functional-inspired syntax using the pipe operator.
For example: ```c use core { printf, iter }
main :: () {
for i in 1 .. 10 {
fact := factorial(i);
printf("{}! = {}\n", i, fact);
}
}
factorial :: (n: i32) -> i32 {
return iter.as_iter(1 .. n)
|> iter.fold(1, (x, y) => x * y);
} ```
Pages in category "Onyx (wasm)"
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