What is MOM ?

It was a minimal Lua Framework. Now it growing... The featured approch is mainly usefull to embedding lot of usefull dependencies inside only one file. This file should be also use as a script for command line use (like shell script but in lua).

At the beginning

I see moonscript and the first sample that uses class :

class Thing
  name: "unknown"

class Person extends Thing
  say_name: => print "Hello, I am #{@name}!"

with Person!
  .name = "MoonScript"
  \say_name!

I can do the same sort of code in lua with (almost) the same number of lines, but only with a separated class module.

local class = require "class"

local Thing = class("Thing", {init=function(self)
  self.name = "unknown"
end})

local Person = class("Person", nil, Thing)
function Person:say_name()
  print( ("Hello, I am %s!"):format(self.name) )
end

local i = class.instance(Person) -- better with Person() or Person:new() ?
  i.name = "MoonScript"
  i:say_name()

And it print Hello, I am MoonScript! even it's not the case.

Why this name ?

Lua is basic, like a child. I think we need something more adult like a parent (mother or father). I think to mom or dad. moonscript start by mo* I choose mom.

It's short, easy to remember, easy to call (require "mom") Search resulsts with mom.lua or lua mom on github and google show me that nothing seems exists.

What is the plan to conquer the world ?

Mainly :

• a default class system
• many different other class system
• a system to manage different implementation for a common API
• env compat
• bit module compat
• strict module

After :

• json module
• ... and more ...
• minifing the result...

License

• Code released under MIT License.