From 056404be2586430ace0c63369e7f5572466828cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikko Ahlroth Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:26:29 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Add readme --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d6ab97e..0b9f9a7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ -# Nulform +# ␀form -** TODO: Add description ** +␀form – or NULform if your font is lacking – is an experimental IRC bot written +in [Elixir](http://elixir-lang.org/), a language built on top of Erlang. The bot +is only a secondary result of my effort to try to learn a new language and new +programming paradigms. + +At this stage (and probably forever), ␀form is not even alpha quality and even +releases in the supposedly stable branches can contain errors and may not even +compile. + + +## Goals for ␀form + +* Functional-ish design +* Distributed, with tasks not blocking others from completion +* Performant and able to scale to many networks and users +* Live code reloading without restarting processes