Dao Programming Language

Dao is a lightweight and optionally typed programming language with many interesting features. It includes features that can make concurrent programming much simpler. It has well designed programming interfaces for easy embedding and extending.

Main features:

• Optional typing with type inference and static type checking;
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with classes and interfaces;
• Code section methods as a better alternative to functional methods;
• Native support for concurrent programming;
• Concurrent garbage collection;
• Support typed coroutines and function decorators;
• Support closures, anonymous functions and classes;
• BNF-like syntax macro for defining customized syntax;
• Designed and implemented as a register-based virtual machine;
• Portable implementation using standard C;
• Simple C programming interfaces for easy embedding and extending;
• LLVM-based Just-In-Time (JIT) compiling;
• Clang-based tool for automatic wrapping of C/C++ libraries;
• Released under the Simplified BSD License.

Please see help:dao.feature for a more complete list of summarized features.

Note: the above features are mostly for Dao 1.2!

Try Dao in browser:
Now it is possible to try Dao in your browser without downloading any plugin.

Latest News Dao has finally become feature complete! (2013-05-18) A new feature for concurrent programming: tasklet communication channels! (2013-05-18) Dao now supports Go-style panic/exception handling! (2013-05-07) Try Dao in web browser (2013-03-30) More news