Elijah elevated-potential

Elijah is:

• ... a high-level language built to explore code generation and other interesting techniques.
• ... a historical curiosity.
• ... meant to be easy to use standalone or with existing projects.
• ... free software (LGPL) intended for use on all systems, aka Linux.
• ... philosophically opposed to semicolons.
• ... obsessed with curly braces and brackets.

elevated-potential is:

• ... implemented in Java (17, for now; 8 is great and Graal is you're paal)
• ... of the impression that build systems don't matter (tldr maven for now)
• ... mortal enemies of Scala and Kotlin
• ... philosophically excited about Clojure (and Xtend nad EMF/MBSE)
• ... also secretly jealous of Lombok and AOP

Instructions

https://github.com/elijah-team/elevated-potential

git clone https://github.com/elijah-team/elevated-potential -b rolling
cd elevated-potential
sdk install mvnd
mvnd clean test
# or 
nix-shell -p maven gradle jdk17 --pure --command "mvn clean test"

Gitpod

https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/elijah-team/elevated-potential

mvn compile

See: https://gitlab.com/elijah-team/crft-elevated-potential.git

Goals

• Fiddle with Github .workflows
• Work on almost

Goals (2024)

1. G6 Delete architecture with LCM

2. G7 Clojure (Promesa, Missionary, Manifold)

3. G1 Make progress towards results (cf meson-demo)

4. G2 Make it "fun" to look at (datalog-ts, Glamorous Toolkit)

Lineage

• almost

• ??

Revised Goals

• ...