The supported programming paradigms are Imperative, Procedural, Object-Oriented, Functional, Meta programming, Declarative programming using nested structures, and Natural programming.
The language is portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, etc.) and can be used to create Console, GUI, Web, Games and Mobile applications.
The language is designed to be Simple, Small, Flexible and Fast. Its Dynamic Language (Dynamic Typing and Weakly Typed) that compile the source code to byte code then execute it by the Ring Virtual Machine, which is integrated with the Ring Compiler in one program.
The first version of the language (around 100,000 lines of C/C++/Ring code) is released on January 25th, 2016.
Source Code : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring
Feature
- Free Open Source (MIT License)
- Interpreter - Hybrid Implementation (Compiler+VM)
- Declarative programming on the top of Object-Oriented programming
- No explicit end for statements (No ; or ENTER is required)
- The compiler + The Virtual Machine are 15,000 lines of C code
- The other 85,000 lines of code are related to libraries!
- Writen in ANSI C (The code is generated)
- Developed using Visual Programming (PWCT)
- Optional Printing for Tokens/Grammar/Byte-Code during execution
- Portable (Windows, Linux & Mac OS X, Android, etc.)
- Comments (One line & Multi-line)
- Not Case-Sensitive
- Dynamic Typing
- Weakly typed
- Lexical Scoping (Global, Local & Object State)
- Default scope for variables inside functions (Local)
- Default scope for variables outside functions (global)
- Garbage Collector - Automatic Memory Management (Escape Analysis and Reference Counting)
- Structure Programming
- Rich control structures & Operators
- For in get item by reference not value, you can read/edit the item
- Use exit to go outside from more than one loop
- Procedures/Functions
- Main Function (optional)
- Call Function before the definition
- Recursion
- Multi-line literals
- Access (read/write) string letter by index
- The list index start from 1
- No keyword to end Functions/Classes/Packages
- Range operator ex: 1:10 and “a”:”z”
- First Class Variables, Lists, Objects and Functions
- Store/Copy Lists/Objects by value (Deep Copy)
- Pass Lists/Objects by reference
- Native Object-Oriented Support
- Encapsulation
- Setter/Getter (optional)
- private state (optional)
- Instantiation
- Polymorphism
- Composition
- Inheritance (Single Inheritance)
- Operator Overloading
- Packages
- using { } to access objects and use attributes/methods as variables/functions
- Reflection and Meta-programming
- Clear program structure (Statements then functions then packages & classes)
- Exception Handling
- Eval() to execute code during run-time
- 8-bit clean, work on binary data directly
- I/O commands
- Math functions
- String functions
- List functions
- File processing functions
- Database support (ODBC & MySQL)
- Security Functions (OpenSSL)
- Internet Functions (LibCurl)
- CGI Library (Written in Ring)
- CGI LIbrary - HTTP Get
- CGI LIbrary - HTTP Post
- CGI LIbrary - File upload
- CGI LIbrary - Cookies
- CGI LIbrary - URL Encode
- CGI LIbrary - Templates
- CGI LIbrary - HTML Special Characters
- CGI LIbrary - HTML Generation using Functions
- CGI LIbrary - HTML Generation using Classes
- CGI LIbrary - CRUD Example (using MVC)
- CGI Library - Users Example (Register, Login and Check)
- Extension using C/C++ (Simple API)
- Embedding the language in C/C++ programs
- Comes with code generator (Written in Ring) to quickly wrap C/C++ Libraries
- Create 2D Games (Using the Allegro Library)
- Create GUI Applications for Desktop and Mobile (Using the Qt Framework)