During the development of HybridOS, Vincent Wei proposed and designed a new-style and easy-to-learn programming language called HVML.
HVML is the acronym for Hybrid Virtual Markup Language.
The original design goal of HVML is to allow developers who are familiar with C/C++, Python, or other programming languages to easily develop GUI applications by using Web front-end technologies (such as HTML/SVG, DOM and CSS), instead of using JavaScript programming language in a web browser or Node.js.
We have achieved this design goal and also designed HVML as a general-purpose programming language. Now, we can not only use HVML as a programming language to rapidly develop GUI applications based on Web front-end technologies in the C/C++ runtime environment, but also use HVML as a general-purpose programming language to write scripting tools, and even the gateway of a Web server.
Vincent Wei and his team has released the specification documents that define the programming language, an open source HVML interpreter called PurC,
and an HVML renderer xGUI Pro based on WebKit.
Although we have basically achieved the initial goal, there is still a lot of work to do. It will be a long-term project, and it could not be achieved with only a few people or companies. The initiators and the designer of HVML, Vincent Wei, decided to unite others to jointly develop HVML in an open source collaboration.
Hence the HVML community is here. Write to us and join HVML Community now, or refer to https://www.hvml.org for more information.
- On Dec. 07, 2023, HVML Community announces the availability of PurC 0.9.18 and xGUI Pro 0.9.0.
- On Mar. 31, 2023, HVML Community announces the availability of PurC 0.9.8.
- On Mar. 31, 2023, HVML Community announces the availability of xGUI Pro 0.6.4.
- Main Developers:
- Vincent Wei: The architect; one of the maintainers of PurC and xGUI Pro.
- XUE Shuming: One of maintainers of PurC and PurC Fetcher.
- LIU Xin: The developer and maintainer of extenal DVObj
FSandFILEof PurC. - XU Xiaohong: He was involved in the development of PurC prior to v0.8.0.
- GENG Yue: He was involved in the development of PurC prior to v0.2.0.
- Main Contributors:
- LIU Ken（刘垦）: The evangelist of HVML community.
- Gavin Guo: The visual designer of HVML logo.
- DAI Zhenan (戴哲楠): The visual designer of HVML logo.
- TIAN Siyuan (田思源): The original designer of HVML logo.
- Complete developers and contributors list.
Here are links to the open source repositories:
- HVML Documents: the specifications of HVML.
- PurC: the Prime hVml inteRpreter for C/C++ language.
- xGUI Pro: an advanced HVML renderer based on WebKit.
- HVML FPM: The FastCGI Process Manager for HVML.
Some articles about HVML:
- HVML, a Programable Markup Language
- Learn HVML Programming in 30 Minutes
- Embedding Python in HVML
- HVML Specifiction V1.0
- HVML Specifiction of Predefined Variables V1.0