Agora is a dynamically typed, garbage collected, embeddable programming language. It is built with the Go programming language, and is meant to provide a syntactically similar, loose and dynamic companion to the statically typed, machine compiled Go language - somewhat like Lua is to C.
go get -t github.com/PuerkitoBio/agora/...
This will install the agora packages as well as the agora
command-line tool. See agora -h
for help, provided the $GOPATH/bin
path is in your exported path. The -t
flag installs the test dependencies, it works only on Go 1.2 and later, omit it otherwise.
Much more examples are available in the wiki and the source code under /testdata/src, but to give a taste of the syntax, here is the mandatory hello world
:
// Output: Hello, Agora !
fmt := import("fmt")
func greet(name) {
fmt.Println("Hello,", name, "!")
}
greet("Agora")
A few things to note:
import
is a built-in function, not a keyword. This is important with dynamically-loaded modules, it gives you control of where this overhead of loading and compiling the code is done. It returns the value exported by the module - in this case, an object that exposes methods like Println
.:=
introduces a new variable. Using an undefined variable is an error, so this statement could not have been =
.Agora is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License, the same as the Go programming language. The full text of the license is available in the LICENSE file at the root of the repository.