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Creating Your First Program

Under Construction

This document will help you how to set up Abstract's tools in your machine as well as how to create, organize and execute your first program.

Setting up the environment​

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To start a new project, begin creating a new directory folder that will be used as the root namespace. For this example, let's call the folder `MyProgram.

Command Line
mkdir MyProgram
cd MyProgram

Writing the program​

Inside the MyProgram folder, create a script file with the .a extension e.g., main.a.

Inside the script file, write the following code:

main.a
from Std.Console import

func main() !void {
    writeln("Hello, World!")
    writeln("I'm coding in abstract!")
}

Running the Program​

Abstract offers two ways to build and run the program: Using the command line to directly call the compiler or use a build script to talk to the compiler for you.

Building with the command line​

Using the command line, you can invoke the following command to run the project in the current workspace:

Command Line
abs run

Running With a Build Automatization Script​

To use a build automatization script, create a new script with the .a that should be called build.a.

This is a example of a standard for the file and directory organization for using build automatization scripts:

MyProgram/
src/
 '- main.a   
build.a

the creation of this istructure can be automatized though the command:

Command Line
abs init

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