languages.rst

.. index:: languages

Language Reference

At the time of writing (summer 2018), the :doc:`C++ <cpp>`, :doc:`Go <go>`, :doc:`Java <java>`, and :doc:`OCaml <ocaml>` ports are being actively developed and fleshed out.

Current Ports

Language	Usage
:doc:`C++ <cpp>`	#include "drylib.hpp"
:doc:`Go <go>`	import "github.com/dryproject/drylib.go"
:doc:`Java <java>`	import dry.*;
:doc:`OCaml <ocaml>`	open DRY

Planned Ports

Language	Usage
:doc:`C <c>`	#include "drylib.h"
:doc:`Common Lisp <lisp>`	(require :drylib)
:doc:`D <d>`	import dry = drylib;
:doc:`Dart <dart>`	TODO
:doc:`Elixir <elixir>`	TODO
:doc:`JS <js>`	import * as dry from 'drylib';
:doc:`Julia <julia>`	using DRYlib
:doc:`Kotlin <kotlin>`	import dry.*
:doc:`Lua <lua>`	dry = require 'drylib'
:doc:`PHP <php>`	require_once 'drylib.php';
:doc:`Python <python>`	import drylib
:doc:`Ruby <ruby>`	require 'drylib'
:doc:`Rust <rust>`	extern crate drylib as dry;

Language Features

Language	Type Checking	Type Safety	Memory Mgmt	Strings	Bignums?	Exceptions?	Closures?	Macros?
:doc:`C <c>`	Static	Weak	Manual	✗ bytes	✗	✗	✗	✗
:doc:`C++ <cpp>`	Static	Weak	RAII/RC	✗ bytes	✗	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Common Lisp <lisp>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✗ UTF-{16,32} [5]	✓	✓	✓	✓
:doc:`D <d>`	Static	Weak?	GC/Manual	✓ UTF-{8,16,32}	✓	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Dart <dart>`	Static	Strong	GC	✗ UTF-16 [1]	✗	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Elixir <elixir>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✓ UTF-8	✓	✓	✓	✓
:doc:`Go <go>`	Static	Strong	GC	✓ UTF-8	✓	✗ [2]	✓	✗
:doc:`Java <java>`	Static	Strong	GC	✗ UTF-16	✓	✓	✓ [3]	✗
:doc:`JS <js>`	Dynamic	Weak	GC	✗ UTF-16	✗ [4]	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Julia <julia>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✓ UTF-8	✓	✓	✓	✓
:doc:`Kotlin <kotlin>`	Static	Strong	GC	✗ UTF-16	✓	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Lua <lua>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✗ bytes	✗	✗ [6]	✓	✗
:doc:`OCaml <ocaml>`	Static	Strong	GC	✗ bytes	✗ [7]	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`PHP <php>`	Dynamic	Weak	GC	✗ bytes	✓	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Python <python>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✗ UTF-{16,32}?	✓	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Ruby <ruby>`	Dynamic	Strong	GC	✓ UTF-8	✓	✓	✓	✗
:doc:`Rust <rust>`	Static	Strong	RAII/RC	✓ UTF-8	✗ [8]	✗	✓	✓

Footnotes

[1]	dart-lang/sdk#28404

[2]	https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PanicAndRecover

[3]	https://dzone.com/articles/java-8-lambas-limitations-closures

[4]	https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint

[5]	https://www.cliki.net/Unicode%20support

[6]	http://lua-users.org/wiki/ErrorHandling

[7]	https://github.com/ocaml/num

[8]	https://github.com/rust-num/num-bigint

.. toctree::
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   c
   cpp
   lisp
   d
   dart
   elixir
   go
   java
   js
   julia
   kotlin
   lua
   ocaml
   php
   python
   ruby
   rust