Not only does functional programming allow for strong scalability of compact, readable and effective code, but functional reactive programming is specifically designed to handle timing based events in an intuitive way. Juniper is designed to carry these advantages, as well as be lightweight enough to function viably on Arduino.
Juniper supports many features typical of functional programming languages, including algebraic data types, tuples, records, pattern matching, full type inference, immutable data structures, parametric polymorphic functions, and anonymous functions (lambdas).
Some imperative programming concepts are also present in Juniper, such as for, while and do while loops, the ability to mark variables as mutable, and mutable references.
Since Juniper transpiles to C++, integration with existing C/C++ libraries is easy and straightforward.
The Juniper compiler, standard library and documentation are all open sourced under the MIT License. The Juniper compiler itself is written in F#, an open source language originally developed by Microsoft Research.
