Introduction

Bonzai is a programming language that relies on Actor model, Reactive programming and on a strong and non-taulerant typechecker to guarantee types and computations in your code. It compiles down to a custom bytecode with relatively good performance.

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Example Code
3. Building Bonzai
4. Contributing
5. Reporting Issues

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Features

• Strong typechecker: Throw errors for incompatible types, to ensure security when running your code.
• Actors as expressions: Make use of first-class actors to express every code you want to.
• Reactive variables: described as live variables, they are updated in real-time.
• Bytecode compilation: Suitable for Unix-like systems, enabling almost multi-platform code running.

Example Code

A parallel HTTP server dispatcher example :

require "std:http"
require "std:natives"
require "std:tuple"

createParallelHTTP(10, fn(req, id) => {
  print("Received request on $id")
  req.respondText("text/html", "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")
})

print("Server running on port http://localhost:8000")

Building Bonzai

Prerequisites

• Haskell compiler: GHC 2021 is required to compile the code
• XMake: to compile the VM
• Python: to run the build script

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/thomasvergne/bonzai.git
cd bonzai

2. Build the project:

python3 scripts/build.py

3. Set the environment variable:

export BONZAI_PATH="/path/to/bonzai"
export PATH="/path/to/bonzai/bin:$PATH"

Reporting Issues

If you find any issues or have suggestions, please use the Issues page. We appreciate your feedback and contributions!