Aspirations of the Ginger
Project¶
Aspirations¶
For part-time programmers and learners, we made Ginger
a simple, clean
and practical language that you can pick up quickly. The language features
are properly separated, scrubbed of hard-to-learn corner cases, and
mapped cleanly into syntax. And you can use the “Common” syntax which is
designed specifically for Ginger. But if you prefer to use a more familiar
C-like syntax, that’s well-supported too. This means that if you only use
Ginger
part-time, you’re likely to find it easy to come back to despite
the breaks.
For professional programmers, we hope it will become your “other programming
language”, the one you choose to program in for fun or when you’re stretching
yourself and doing something new. Ginger
is designed to be powerful
enough for substantial professional programming projects. We have ensured that
it works elegantly as a scripting language, yet can also be compiled reasonably
well, permits rich type annotations and has an powerful package system.
It also supports ‘advanced’ features such as first-class functions, coroutines, deferred evaluation, extensible pattern-matching, transaction based exception handling, and DSLs - but expressed in a clear and straightforward fashion. We hope you’ll find :mod:`Ginger: inspires you to tackle challenging problems and find brilliantly direct and elegant solutions.