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Reia (programming language)

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Reia
Paradigmmulti-paradigm: concurrent, object-oriented, imperative, functional, declarative
First appeared2008
Typing disciplinedynamic, strong
LicenseMIT
Websitehttp://reia-lang.org/
Influenced by
Erlang, Ruby, Python

Reia was a general-purpose concurrent object-oriented programming language for the Erlang virtual machine. As of August 10, 2011, Reia has been declared defunct in favor of Elixir[1].

Reia supported multiple programming paradigms including imperative, functional, declarative, object oriented, and concurrent. It used the actor model for concurrency in a manner that worked alongside its object system. It used pattern matching as the primary operation by which it selected branches to take and bind variables. It also had a dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it was therefore similar in varying respects to Erlang, Ruby, and Python.

See also

  • Official website
  • DePue, Chad (December 10, 2008). "Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails". Erlang Inside.
  • Ghosh, Debasish (June 9, 2008). "Ruminations of a Programmer: Targeting BEAM for extreme reliability". Ruminations of a Programmer. Blogger.
  • DePue, Chad (October 22, 2008). "Reia Brings Scripting to Erlang". Erlang Inside.
  • Welton, David N. (September 26, 2008). "Reia: Python/Ruby style language on top of Erlang". Lambda the Ultimate.
  • Arcieri, Tony (June 29, 2011). "Why i'm stopping work on Reia".


  1. ^ Arcieri, Tony. "Elixir info". Github. Retrieved 4 July 2015.