Overview¶

About¶

Oli aims to be a confortable minimal language for general purposes which provides a mix of features from common markup languages and some basic features from programming languages

It has a beutiful, elegant and clean syntax with unobstructive grammar, that allows to use it for multiple purposes, like creating your own DSL. It was designed to be mainly consumed by humans

Rationale¶

Just for fun :)

Design goals¶

Human focused, readability matters
Keep it simple but provide built-in rich features
Realiable syntax, avoid ambiguity
Unobstructive grammar syntax symbol based
Elegant mix of basic programming languages features

Real use cases¶

Create syntax clean and readable configuration files
Use it as your own DSL for specific purposes
Store human writable/readable data, like manifest files
Data interchange format for non-complex schemas structures
Featured markup-like language for templating
Replacement for XML, JSON, YAML, INI...

Features¶

At high level, here are some of the most relevant language features

First class primitive types: boolean, number and strings
List and data hashmaps support
Data linking and references
Copy or extend data structures
Templaiting with string interpolation support

Upcoming features¶

There are some relevant features for the future 0.2 language version specification

Indent-based blocks (5)
Block scope references (18)
Interpolated code (3)
Built-in functions for data transformation and formatting (#`21`_)
Math operations (20)
Date as first-class type (2)

For a detailed, take a look to the Github discussion for more details