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Full documentation at http://sillelien.github.io/dollar and the manual is at http://sillelien.github.io/dollar/manual/

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Intro

Dollar is a light-weight scripting language for the JVM. More specifically it is an integration centric, reactive dynamic programming language.

It is currently being built for the needs of server-side developers and Java developers in general who need to produce quick prototypes or write simple scripts. Furthermore it is an internet centric language where JSON and URIs are first class citizens.

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The language is currently in early but active development.

I'm also working full-time on this, if you wish to support my efforts then please back me on Patreon:

And/or star the project on GitHub.

Thanks!

Example to find out your local air quality:

//First we get the Geo Location of our IP address var geo= read http://freegeoip.net/json/ var lat= geo.latitude var lon= geo.longitude
var quality= read ("https://api.openaq.org/v1/measurements?radius=10000&limit=5&coordinates="+ lat + "," + lon) as URI;
//Now output the quality from each result quality.results each {  @@ $1.location  @@ $1.parameter +" was "+ $1.value + " " + $1["unit"] +" on " + $1.date.utc }

Learn more at http://sillelien.github.io/dollar.

Install

Download the distribution then run the following in your shell:

 tar -zxvf dollar-0.4.5195.tgz

To use dollar:

 ./dollar/bin/dollar <filename>.ds

Docs

Documentation is at http://sillelien.github.io/dollar.

Q&A: https://gitq.com/sillelien/dollar

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Maven

The artifacts used to build the Dollar project can be accessed using

 <repositories>  <repository>  <id>dollar-s3-release-repo</id>  <name>S3 Release Repository for component1</name>  <url>s3://dollar-repo/release</url>  <releases>  <enabled>true</enabled>  </releases>  <snapshots>  <enabled>false</enabled>  </snapshots>  </repository>   </repositories>

and

 <dependency>  <groupId>com.sillelien</groupId>  <artifactId>dollar-xxx</artifactId>  <version>0.4.5195</version>  </dependency>

Dependencies:

Docker

There is a docker image, but it is in it's infancy so better to work with the distribution for now.

docker run -v $HOME/.github:/root/.github -v $HOME/.dollar:/root/.dollar -v $(pwd):/build -it sillelien/dollarscript-headless:0.4 <filename>.ds

Research & Background Reading

Language Design

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/so-you-want-to-write-your-own-language/240165488

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU

Lambdas and Scope Closure

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Lambda.html

Font Ligatures

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

If you use this project please consider giving us a star on GitHub.

Please contact me through Gitter (chat) or through GitHub Issues.

For commercial support please contact me directly.

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(c) 2014-2017 Neil Ellis all rights reserved. Please see LICENSE for license details of this project. Please visit http://neilellis.me for help and raise issues on GitHub.

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