Projects can be tedious to setup and manage, especially when you use a lot of languages, frameworks and tools. Etern is meant to solve that.

• Installation
• Project Management
• Template Scripts
• Build Scripts

All of this points are going to be explained in the following sections.

Download the binary and the path.sh file to your computer. In the same directory input this command:

./path.sh # Pass here the path to the binary

This will add the binary to your path.

Clone the repository and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/maximsenterprise/etern.git
cd etern
make # Check that all commands are installed and work well
./path.sh ./bin/etern

To begin setup simply type etern in your terminal.

The setup is simple, it will ask for three things:

• The Version Control System you are using, it can be git or hg.
• If you want bolds and italics in the output, it can be yes or no.
• The templates directory, the default is ~/.etern/templates.

Projects are managed by the etern command. You can create a new project by typing etern new and following the instructions.

• Indicate the language you are going to use. The defaults are:

  • cpp or c++ for C++
  • c_c++ or c_cpp for C mixed with C++
  • c for C
  • ada for Ada
  • erlang for Erlang
  • js or javascript for JavaScript
  • java for Java
  • c# or csharp for C#
  • rust for Rust
  • python for Python
  • crystal for Crystal
  • html for HTML
  • electron for Electron
  • flutter for Flutter
  • elixir for Elixir
  • fsharp or f# for F#
  • go for Go
  • haskell for Haskell
  • lua for Lua
  • nim for Nim
  • ocaml for OCaml
  • ruby for Ruby
  • rails for the Rails Framework
  • scala for Scala
  • spark for Spark
  • swift for Swift
  • zig for Zig

• Indicate the name of the project.

• You can also put some flags:

  • --no-vcs to not initialize a git or mercurial repository.
  • --lib to create a library project.
  • --no-run to not create a run script. and more...

Templates are a core part of Etern. They are used to generate the project structure for projects you create.

Normally templates remain in the ~/.etern/templates directory, but you can change this in the setup.

Templates are written in ruby and are just like any other ruby script. Their name is the name of the template followed by .rb, i.e: basic.rb.

Build scripts are used to build your project, it is important to note that they are Hastfiles so Hast must be installed

Hast is a build system that is used to build projects. It is written in Typescript and is very simple to use.

To run simply execute etern run in the project directory.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Thank you to YaoYuan for yyjson, it is a great library for managing JSON with C++.

Created by Maxims Enterprise in 2024. All rights reserved