Zen Programming Language

As a C++ coder, I often found myself writing repetitive (but necessary) code, and wondered if I could write a code generator for the boilerplate code, leaving me to write just the functionality. This grew into a larger effort, the result of which is Zen, a full fledged functional programming language that generates cross-platform C++ code and creates project files to debug and build the generated code.

Among other things, it has:

• functional programming constructs, and closures, continuations and fibers.
• a fiber dispatch queue similar to OSX's GCD.
• a grammar generator and fully integrated GUI
• Generates .vcproj files for MSVC on Windows
• Generates .pro files for QtCreator on Linux

Please refer to the documentation below to install and get started with using Zen!

Documentation

• The Installation Guide : Instructions on downloading and setting up the software, from the packages or the code repository.
• Getting Started : A gradual introduction to the most important features of the language. Basic knowledge of C/C++ is assumed.
• The Runtime Queue : A detailed description of the runtime queue.

Information

• Rationale and Philosophy : Reasons behind the development of this language.
• Product Backlog : Current list of outstanding/upcoming features.

Links

• Visit the Sourceforge Project
• Browse Project Source Code online.