Documentation

Dana is a component-based programming language which strictly separates structure from behaviour to promote software that is more re-usable and easier to evolve. Software written in Dana can introspect over its own structure and modify that structure at runtime.

Installation

Recommended source code editors

Quick reference sheets

Writing your first program

Code organisation, the central source tree, and default components

Data types - primitive types, data, and interfaces (objects)

Interfaces: provide and require, multiple primary interfaces, secondary interfaces, destructors, and interface inheritance

Field selection and reflection

The event paradigm, object IDs, and self-references

Control constructs

Threads and concurrency control

Exceptions

Dynamically loading components at runtime

Runtime adaptation (performing adaptation and writing adaptable components)

How to use the PAL meta-system

How to use the esher meta-system

Dana system calls

Writing your own native library

Dana's syntax model

How to run the example programs