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Lobster is a programming language that tries to combine the advantages of static typing and compile-time memory management with a very lightweight, friendly and terse syntax, by doing most of the heavy lifting for you.
Though starting on page one with command-line instructions doesn't make sense, as Lobster is multi-platform, and command-line instructions is a good way to scare off Windows users :) Existing command-line instructions are here (under CMake / Linux): http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/lobster/docs/implementation.html but yeah, I guess that is ...
- Using The Compiler
- Learning The Language
- About Lobster
A quick getting startedguide. More detailed: using Lobster from the command line, or setting up editorssuch as VSCode, Sublime Text, Notepad++ or vim as IDE. Lite-XL has a syntaxhighlighting plugin.
If you already know how to program in at least one C-style language(C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript etc), then a way to get a quick idea of whereLobster is different is by looking at the C-stylelanguage Cheat Sheet. Useful for reference: allbuiltin functions(this part of the documentation is auto-generatedby the compiler). Tutorials: How to build a 2Dshoo...
Lobster was designed and implemented by Wouter van Oortmerssen(aardappel at gmail dot com / strlen.com). It has been released under the Apache v2 open source licence. Read about the design philosophy, historyand future.
Lobster is a language that relies heavily on type inference and generic types, and generally not requiring you to specify types, the order in which things get type-checked sometimes matters. Lobster type-checks function calls in call order, but type declaration in the order in which they are specified in the source code, or imported.
The most important over-arching reason behind everything in Lobster was to make it a pleasant language to use for one single person: me, the author. I've designed a fair number of languages in the past that had a particular goal or should appeal to a particular target group, or were even commercial. Lobster is not such a language.
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