Features

The Dragon language comes with the next features

.. tip:: One of the main goals behind the first release is creating a useful language ready for production!

• Interpreted
• Declarative programming on top of object-oriented programming
• No explicit end for statements (No ; or ENTER is required)
• Portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, etc.)
• Comments (one line, inline, & multi-line)
• Dynamic typing
• Weakly typed
• Garbage collector - automatic memory management (escape analysis and reference counting)
• Structure-oriented programming
• Rich control structures & operators
• Procedures/functions
• No main function
• Call function before the definition
• Recursion
• Multi-line literals
• Reflection and metaprogramming
• Clear program structure (statements, then functions)
• Exception handling
• I/O commands
• Math functions
• String functions
• Standard functions
• File processing functions
• Database support
• Create GUI applications for desktop