numscript

Numscript is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) designed to help you model complex financial transactions, replacing complex and error-prone custom code with easy-to-read, declarative scripts.

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Numscript is a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) designed to help you model complex financial transactions, replacing complex and error-prone custom code with easy-to-read, declarative scripts.

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gregwebs·Sep 20, 2024

The CLI is only displaying a "check" command but I did figure out that there is a "run" command as well. go install github.com/formancehq/numscript@latest go: downloading github.com/formancehq/numscript v0.0.8 go: downloading github.com/antlr4-go/antlr/v4 v4.13.1 go: downloading github.com/sourcegraph/jsonrpc2 v0.2.0 go: downloading golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20240707233637-46b078467d37 numscript -h Numscript cli Usage: numscript [command] Available Commands: check Check a numscript file help Help about any command Flags: -h, --help help for numscript -v, --version version for numscript Use "numscript [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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superzamp·Sep 19, 2024

Yes exactly! There's actually two implementations, one tightly knit to our ledger product located at [1] and the new, standalone one (used by the playground) at [2]. In any case, in both implementations, the DSL is indeed MIT. [1] https://github.com/formancehq/stack/tree/main/components/led... [2] https://github.com/formancehq/numscript

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