Nirum

Nirum is an IDL compiler and RPC/distributed object framework for microservices, built on top of the modern Web server technologies such as RESTful HTTP and JSON.

You can find how its IDL looks like from source codes in the examples/ directory.

Note that its design is highly unstable and could be changed. Also the feature set is incomplete yet.

Installation

If you already installed Haskell Platform or Haskell Stack, you can build the project in the same way other Haskell projects are built:

$ cabal sandbox init
$ cabal install --only-dependencies
$ cabal configure
$ cabal build

or:

$ stack build

Getting Started

In order to compile a Nirum package (examples/) to a Python package:

$ mkdir out/  # directory to place generated Python files
$ nirum -o out/ examples/

For more infomration, use --help option:

$ nirum --help
Nirum Compiler 0.1.0

nirum [OPTIONS] DIR

Common flags:
  -o --output-dir=DIR   The directory to place object files
  -? --help             Display help message
  -V --version          Print version information
     --numeric-version  Print just the version number

Etymology

니름 (IPA: /niɾɯm/; nireum) is a sort of telepathy in the fictional world of The Bird That Drinks Tears (눈물을 마시는 새 Nunmureul masineun sae) by Lee Yeongdo (이영도).