creationix/jack

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Another new language. The name will probably change.

Jack

Jack is a new language designed by Tim Caswell with the explicit goal of being easy to explain the semantics while still being powerful.

Jack is a scripting language aimed at kids learning to program as well as professionals who yearn for a simpler language (like me).

Language Features

Immutable unicode strings
Mutable Binary buffers (fixed length)
Booleans
Null
Integers
Floating Point Numbers
First class and higher-order functions.
- Lexical closure.
Basic key/value maps for objects (no inheritance or prototype chain)
Dense Arrays
Everything is an expression where possible.
Implicit return values
Unified looping syntax that works on objects, arrays, and generator functions
Object metamethods for advanced usage (get, set, keys, length, call)
- Allows objects to act like functions, arrays, etc.

My guiding principle while adding language features and semantics is:

Keep it Simple, Keep it Safe

See the examples folder for syntax examples.

js-git

A JavaScript implementation of Git.

step

An async control-flow library that makes stepping through logic easy.

wheat

Wheat is a blog engine for coders written in node.JS

haml-js

Haml ported to server-side Javascript. This is a traditional server-side templating language. Tested with node-js

howtonode.org

This repo contains the actual articles for HowToNode.org

topcube

Webkit Bindings for node

nstore

nStore is a simple, in-process key/value database for node.js

jsonparse

A streaming JSON parser written in pure JavaScript for node.js

do

Do is a simple library for managing async actions in node.JS.

dukluv

LibUV bindings for duktape JS engine

msgpack-js

The msgpack protocol implemented in pure javascript.

http-parser-js

A pure JS HTTP parser for node.

node-gir

Node bindings to libgirepository

node-git

Node.JS library to read git repositories.

node-persistence

A high level persistance/database system for node.js

tedit

Chrome app for tedit

node-sdl

Minimal sdl bindings for maximum fun

brozula

VM that runs in the browser and interprets luajit bytecode.

node-router

A simple http server for node.js that has sinatra like qualities. Ideal for generating web services via node.

js-github

An implementation of the js-git interface that mounts a live github repo.

node-webgl

OpenGLES 2.0 bindings for nodeJS with a webGL API

postgres-js

The postgres backend protocol implemented in pure JS for use with node.js

jsgit

A command-line git client powered by js-git and node.js

node-leveldb

NodeJS bindings to levelDB - a fast and lightweight key/value database library

jquery-haml

jQuery-haml is a haml like language written in JSON. This allows for easy dom building so that web apps can do more work independent of the server for a better user experience.

gen-run

Generator Async Runner. Makes it possible to yield and wait for callbacks and continuables.

stack

Stack is a minimal http module system for node.js

couch-client

A minimal CouchDB client that easy and powerful

weblit

A web framework for luvit 2.0 and lit

node-gamepad

node.js bindings for Alex Diener's cross-platform gamepad code

msgpack-js-browser

A browser port of msgpack-js using DataView and ArrayBuffer.

git-browser

Browse Git Repos offline.

js-git-app

A js-git packaged app for chrome and chromebooks.

node-blog

This repo is the code behind the blog HowToNode.org

domchanger

dombuilder that applies diffs only to the real dom

nuv

N-API bindings to libuv with async/await friendly JS wrapping on top.

ivy

Ivy is Tim Caswell's personal node.js distribution, fork and customize!

conductor

Conducts async functions into orchestrated masterpieces

lua-git

Git implementation in pure lua for luvit.

nstore-session

This is a connect session store using nStore

libco

Mirror of http://byuu.org/library/libco/

rack-php

A php 5.3 framework with built in rack support. You can serve the php site using thin, mongrel, webrick, passenger, mod_php, or mod_fcgid.

jack-old

A new programming language that sits on top of JavaScript in order to iron out the rough spots and please the programmer

wheaty

JS-Git based application hosting platform

sousaball

social networking game project using html5 canvas for the front end and node.js/V8 for the backend.

adventure

Adventure is the start of a real-time RPG world using node.js and Websockets.

movies

The server I use to stream my kids dvd backups over http using node.js from a mac mini running linux.

luvmonkey

Spidermonkey shell with libuv bindings built-in.

moonslice-luv

A port of moonslice running on top of luv and lhttp_parser

safereturn

Functional helpers for callback based code.

seaduk

An implementation of nucleus-js using duktape and libuv implemented in C

dombuilder

An easy dombuilder using json-ml style syntax

min-stream

A meta-package for min-stream helper modules.

node-web

A small and fast web/http library for nodejs. (replaces the built-in http module)

refresh

Refreshing REST/Webdav for node

proto

Adds nice utilities to Object.prototype for JavaScript using Object.defineProperty

creationix

My personal sandbox for growing packages.

pattern

An experiment with my new prototypal style programming

rec

A tool for recording CLI programs and posting their output.

uscript

μScript is a simple programming language for μControllers co-designed by a 9-year-old.

simple-mime

A small, simple mime database for node.js

grain

Grain is an async framework for node-js templating languages.

fastqueue

A fast push/shift sync queue

sftp-server

sftp-server implemented in pure JS using node

websocket

A simple drop-in replacement for node's TCP server that supports the WebSocket protocol.

nodemcu-webide

A websocket based IDE for nodemcu devices.

LESS.tmbundle

a textmate bundle for less css using the node version of the library at http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js

nibs

boxcode

A tiling code editor

firmata-chrome

Firmata driver for chrome.serial

topcloud

High level application framework for Javascript (built on top of jquery-haml and modeled somewhat after SproutCore)

basic-games

An archive of the best games I wrote for Q-Basic over a 10 year span.

experiments

Random collection of my experiments

drop-dat

A quick file sharing mechanism using dat libraries.

uvrun

Tiny node module to expose uv_run and uv_run_once to JavaScript

candor.io

candor.io is a server framework that uses the candor language combined with libuv to make fast scripted network servers.

chrome-app-module-loader

A module loader that lets you load npm modules from a chrome app.

nodeconf2012

My slides and content from nodeconf 2012

world-db

A specialized database for massive tilemaps

git-node-fs

A node adapter for the fs-db mixin for js-git.

mine

Miner digs into a javascript file looking for require calls. Used to statically extract common js dependencies.

lshell

A remote shell using luvit, websockets, and term.js

coffeepot

A compiler for coffee-script written in coffee-script.

git-node

A convenience wrapper for js-git preconfigured for node.js

moonslice

A fast web framework for luvit

git-sha1

A pure js SHA1 implementation created for js-git.

bench-suite

A benchmark skeleton for something better than static hello world http servers.

candor.js

An alternate vm for candor that runs in your browser!

staff

A port of the excellent Backbone.JS with minor API style changes and no dependencies. ES5 support only.

revision

ujkl

Micro Jack Lisp - For ESP8266 and Raspberry PI

msgpack-es

Msgpack implemented in pure ecmascript.

git-repo

A local git repository using any pluggable backend.

dukcurl

libcurl bindings for duktape

redis-luvit

A redis client for luvit

jack-lang

C VM for Jack Language

wscat

A netcat like client for websockets

ts-git

TypeScript re-implementation of js-git (aka js-git 2.0)

git-tree

Create a composite tree of js-git repos and work via paths.

luvit-quest

An interactive workshop that teaches network programming with luvit.