ALF is a set of control-flow abstractions built on top Elixir GenStage which allows writing programs following the Flow-Based Programming (FBP) approach.
ALF is a framework for your application layer, it provides a simple and expressive way of presenting the logic as sequential processing of “information packets” (IPs) (or, simply, messages or events), and thus brings high design-, coding-, and run-time observability.
ALF is NOT a general-purpose “language”, so implementing a complex domain logic with it might be questionable (although it is possible).
ALF is a successor of the Flowex project. ALF adds conditional branching, packet cloning, goto statement, decomposer/recomposer and other functionalities. Therefore, one can create application trees (graphs) of arbitrary complexity.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/antonmi/alf
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Developer: Anton Mishchuk
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
ALF is written in Elixir. Learn Elixir with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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