Arza programming language

Arza is a functional programming language with multiple dispatch, immutable data structures and actor model out of the box.

Arza is in a prototype state of development. Current interpreter is implemented in Python (without RPython)

There is no REPL at the moment.

Detailed documentation

To run tests

python targetarza.py test/arza/main.arza

or better use pypy

Features

• Laconic whitespace aware syntax inspired by F#, Python, Lisp
• Immutable data structures (lists, tuples, maps)
• Pattern matching
• Lexical clojures and lambdas
• Usual number of primitives (if-else, let-in, try-catch)
• User defined operators
• User defined abstract and struct types
• Nominal subtyping
• Multiple dispatch generic functions
• Interfaces supporting multiple dispatch paradigm
• Traits as functions operating on types
• Special syntax for partial application
• Stackless virtual machine
• Asymmetric coroutines
• Symmetric coroutines aka processes
• Decorators for functions, types and generic specialisations
• Special syntax for modifiing deeply nested immutable structures
• Special support for creating links to parts of immutable structures aka lenses