Slice - Programming language

Slice is a programming language created in 2011.

#937on PLDB

13Years Old

40Repos

Tags: programming language
There are at least 40 Slice repos on GitHub
Early development of Slice happened in ZeroC, Inc
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 13 users using Slice in 20 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Slice
Read more about Slice on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

// YellowPages.ice
module YellowPages
{
    class PersonDetails
    {
       string phoneNumber;
       optional(1) string address;
    }

    interface PhoneBook
    {
        PersonDetails find(string name);
    }
}

Example from Linguist:

#pragma once

#ifndef SOME_TEST
[["java:package:linguist"]]
#endif

module Linguist
{
    enum MyEnum
    {
        One,
        Two,
        Three
    }

    struct MyStruct
    {
        // An int
        int a;
        /* string */
        string b;

        MyEnum e;
    }

    exception MyException {
        string e;
    }

    dictionary<string, string> MyDict;

    sequence<MyEnum> MyEnumSeq;

    class BaseClass {
        int value = -1;
    }

    class MyClass extends BaseClass
    {
        MyDict info;

        optional(1) string op;
    }


    interface MyInterface
    {
        void operationA(out bool valid);
        idempotent void operationB(int a);
        MyEnumseq getEnum();

        ["cpp:const", "cpp:noexcept"] string getName();
    }
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X