Bay Six Software

[Brent]

1. Where does the name ViviFire come from?
   It is a blend of "vivify" (to give life to) and "fire"(an homage to Liberty BASIC).
   
2. Which paradigms does/will it support?
   Object-oriented programming (OOP)
   Modular programming
   Generic programming
   Event-driven programming
   
3. What language is ViviFire written in?
   Standard C++
   
4. What tools do you use to develop ViviFire?
   Coco/R translates a grammar specification into C++.
   LLVM provides a cross-platform compiler backend.
   
5. Is source code available?
   Yes. https://github.com/BrentDT/ViviFire
   Or you can download a zipped archive from the homepage that gets updated 3 or 4 times a month.
   
6. Under what license(s) is the code released?
   Source code uses the MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
   Documentation uses Creative Commons/CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
   
7. What does Hello World look like?

   Code:

   Program Hello Require VF.IO PrintLine "Hellow world!"

   
   
8. What stage of development is ViviFire currently in?
   As of mid-2022, it is at a late-alpha or pre-beta level.
   
9. Where is the ViviFire home page?
   http://vivifire.com