Flua

General info

Flua is a general purpose programming language (or environment, if you like). Its main features are:

• Data flow programming
• Mutable and immutable data structures depending on what you currently need
• Multiple syntax support
• Language can be extended via patterns
• Automatic Parallelization based on Whitelists
• Code is saved in XML files which hold all the data about them (documentation, etc.)

It is currently in the Alpha phase.

• Website: http://flua-lang.org/
• More info: https://github.com/blitzprog/flua/wiki/Flua-design-document

Installation on Debian

If you use Debian or Ubuntu just execute this:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pyqt4 git g++ build-essential xorg-dev libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxrandr-dev libfreeimage3 libfreeimage-dev freeglut3 freeglut3-dev
git clone git://github.com/blitzprog/flua.git
python3 ./flua/flua-studio.py

This works on Ubuntu 12.04 and higher. On Ubuntu 11.xx or non-debian based systems you need to compile these dependencies manually or install the equivalent packages.

Installation on Windows

Just download and extract this archive: https://github.com/downloads/blitzprog/flua/Flua-x86.7z

If you don't have 7z yet, get it: http://www.7-zip.org/

Compiling dependencies manually

If you are using Ubuntu 11.xx or a non-debian based system, this section is for you. Install git, g++, Python 3 and these development packages via your package manager (Ubuntu 11.xx is used as an example):

sudo apt-get install python3 git g++ build-essential python3-dev libqt4-dev

Afterwards:

• Download SIP source: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download
• Compile SIP for Python 3.x
• Download PyQt 4 source: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
• Compile PyQt 4 for Python 3.x

Compiling these libraries can be done via:

python3 configure.py
make
sudo make install

Download Flua via git (unless you already downloaded it):

git clone git://github.com/blitzprog/flua.git

Start flua-studio.py which is in the top-level flua directory:

python3 ./flua/flua-studio.py

On 64-Bit systems you might need to install libc-i386-dev as well. If you want to compile the graphics examples you'll need X11 and OpenGL development packages (libx11-dev libxt-dev libxext-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev).