Goby is an object-oriented interpreter language deeply inspired by Ruby as well as its core implementation by 100% pure Go. Moreover, it has standard libraries to provide several features such as the Plugin system. Note that we do not intend to reproduce whole of the honorable works of Ruby syntax/implementation/libraries.
The expected use case for Goby would be backend development. With this goal, it equips (but not limited to) the following features:
- thread/channel mechanism powered by Go's goroutine
- Builtin database library (currently only support PostgreSQL adapter)
- JSON support
- Plugin system that can load existing Go packages dynamically (Only for Linux and MacOS right now)
- Accessing Go objects from Goby directly
Note: Goby had formerly been known as "Rooby", which was renamed in May 2017.
- Demo screen and sample Goby app
- Structure
- 3D Visualization
- Features
- Installation
- Usage
- Sample codes
- Documentation
- Joining to Goby
- Maintainers
- Supporters
- References
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New! Check-out our sample app built with Goby. Source code is also available here.
A 3D visualization of Goby codebase, powered by GoCity
- Plugin system
- Allows using Go libraries (packages) dynamically
- Allows calling Go's methods from Goby directly (only on Linux for now)
- Builtin multi-threaded server and DB library
- REPL (run
goby -i)
Here's a complete list of all the features.
Confirmed Goby runs on Mac OS and Linux for now. Try Goby on Windows and let us know the result.
Note: Please check the latest release before installing Goby via Homebrew
brew tap goby-lang/goby
brew install goby
In the case, $GOBY_ROOT is automatically configured.
Try this if you'd like to contribute Goby! Skip 1 if you already have Golang in your environment.
- Prepare Golang environment
- Install Golang >= 1.14
- Make sure
$GOPATHin your shell's config file( like .bashrc) is correct - Add your
$GOPATH/binto$PATH - Add
export GO111MODULE=onto your shell profile
- Run
go get github.com/goby-lang/goby - Set the Goby project's exact root path
$GOBY_ROOTmanually, which should be:
$GOPATH/src/github.com/goby-lang/goby
In order to install Go, Goby and PostgreSQL on a Linux system, see the wiki page.
- Run
goby -vto see the version. - Run
goby -ito launch igb REPL. - Type
require "uri"in igb.
FYI: You can just run brew test goby to check Homebrew installation.
If you have any issue installing Goby, please let us know via GitHub issues
Goby has official docker image as well. You can try the Plugin System using docker.
The Goby syntax is currently a subset of the Ruby one, with an exception (get_block), therefore, it's possible to attain syntax highlighting on any platform/editor by simply switching it to Ruby for the currently opened file.
Sublime Text 3 users can use the Only Goby package, by typing the following in a terminal:
git clone [email protected]:saveriomiroddi/only-goby-for-sublime-text "$HOME/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/only-goby-for-sublime-text"this will automatically apply the Goby syntax highlighting to the .gb files.
Vim users can use the vim-goby-syntax-highlighting definition, by typing the following in a terminal:
mkdir -p "$HOME/.vim/syntax"
wget -O "$HOME/.vim/syntax/goby.vim" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saveriomiroddi/vim-goby-syntax-highlighting/master/goby.vim
echo 'au BufNewFile,BufRead *.gb setf goby' >> "$HOME/.vim/filetype.vim"this will automatically apply the Goby syntax highlighting to the .gb files.
SpaceVim users can load the lang#goby layer by adding following configuration:
[[layers]]
name = "lang#goby"- Built a stack data structure using Goby
- Running a "Hello World" app with built in server library
- Sending request using http library
- Running load test on blocking server (This shows
Goby's simple server is very performant and can handle requests concurrently) - One thousand threads
More sample Goby codes can be found in sample directory.
Join us on Slack!
See the guideline.
- @st0012
- @hachi8833
- @saveriomiroddi
- JetBrains Goland IDE
Supporting Goby by sending your first PR! See contribution guideline
The followings are the essential resources to create Goby; I highly recommend you to check them first if you'd be interested in building your own languages:
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent