From 38a4a050fcac44b79843a0760a0084f113d7c817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Feldman Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:35:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Some more /platforms tweaks --- www/content/platforms.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/content/platforms.md b/www/content/platforms.md index 59a7e08fdd6..b3a0ddd3e50 100644 --- a/www/content/platforms.md +++ b/www/content/platforms.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Platforms & Applications +# Platforms -Something that sets Roc apart from most programming languages is its *platforms and applications* architecture. +Something that sets Roc apart from other programming languages is its *platforms and applications* architecture. ## [Applications](#applications) {#applications} @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Every Roc application, including this one, is built on a _platform_. This applic Roc platforms provide domain-specific functionality that multiple applications can use as a foundation to build on, much like game engines and Web frameworks do. -Also like many game engines and Web frameworks, Roc platforms consist of a high-level Roc API which presents a nice interface to a lower-level implementation (written in a different language) which provides the foundational primitives that platform needs to operate—such as a C++ 3D rendering system in a game engine, or a Rust HTTP networking system in a Web framework. +Also like many game engines and Web frameworks, Roc platforms have a high-level Roc API which presents a nice interface to a lower-level implementation (written in a different language), which provides the foundational primitives that platform needs to operate—such as a C++ 3D rendering system in a game engine, or a Rust HTTP networking system in a Web framework. -Here are some example Roc platforms, along with the functionality they might provide: +Here are some example Roc platforms, and functionality they might provide: * A Roc game engine platform might provide functionality for rendering and sound. * A Roc Web server platform (like [basic-webserver](https://github.com/roc-lang/basic-webserver)) probably would not provide functionality for rendering and sound, but it might provide functionality for responding to incoming HTTP requests—which a game engine platform likely would not. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Platforms can also be designed to have a single, specific application run on the ## [Platform scope](#scope) {#scope} Roc platforms have a broader scope of responsibility than game engines or Web frameworks. In addition to providing a nice domain-specific interface, platforms are also responsible for: -* Tailoring automatic memory management to that domain (more on this later) +* Tailoring memory management to that domain (more on this later) * Providing all I/O primitives In most languages, I/O primitives come with the standard library. In Roc, the [standard library](https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/) contains only data structures; an application gets all of its I/O primtiives from its platform. For example, in the "Hello, World" application above, the `Stdout.line` function comes from the `basic-cli` platform itself, not from Roc's standard library.