Floss is a minimal, object-oriented language for creating software in relatively little time, with relatively little code. First, we'll go through some main ideas behind Floss:
- Floss is somewhat statically typed, but is a dynamic language
- Floss is small and embeddable
- Floss has a fast, lightweight, register-based VM
- Floss is fully implemented in C, with a lexer/parser in Flex and Bison
- Floss is free, and open source, and always will be for as long as it's maintained
- Floss is a mix of many other great languages:
- Potion (_why's language)
- Lisp (small and fast)
- Scala (statically typed, somewhat dynamic)
- Python (organized and clean)
- Ruby (it rocks, and I love it)
- Lua (embedabble with a fast, leightweight VM)
- And mainly inspired by... Smalltalk!