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 hot-swap behaviour while running.

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

Associative functions

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