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Preface: The Cell Environment
Cell is an actor based scripting language.
The idea is to author c code and orchestrate it using cell script, in an actor based environment, and deploy it on many platforms.
Building code
There are two ways to run cell:
The dev environment is highly dynamic and available only on platforms with dynamic library loading. It lets you spawn actors and test quickly.
Cake is a static builder for cell, which lets you bundle a package into a static executable for a variety of target platforms.
Packages
Cell doesn't assume an underlying file system.
Packages are the fundamental cell unit. A package is made up of a variety of cell script files and potentially C files. When bundling, everything in a package is bundled together; when running in dev, everything in a package is loaded dynamically.
Cell code is written with cellscript.
Modules and programs
A module returns a single object. This can be a function, an object of functions, a number, a string, whatever. It is included with the "use" keyword, ie, use('/').
A program doesn't return anything. A program is an actor, with its own memory space. Actors do not share memory. Actors can send messages to each other.