dryLang Documentation

Welcome to the official dryLang documentation. dryLang is a minimalist, dynamically-typed programming language compiled to bytecode and executed on a stack-based virtual machine.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Variables & Constants
3. Data Types
4. Operators
5. Strings
6. Control Flow
7. Loops
8. Functions
9. Collections
10. Structs
11. Error Handling
12. Modules
13. Built-in Functions
14. HTTP Server
15. Database
16. Comments
17. CLI Reference
18. Error Messages

Design Philosophy

dryLang follows the Writeless, get more principle — Writeless, get more.

• Go inspired: simplicity, single-binary output, fast compilation
• Python inspired: clean variable naming, dynamic typing
• JavaScript inspired: ${} string interpolation
• All compressed to the absolute minimum syntax

Every keyword is 1–4 characters. Every built-in function is 1–4 characters. No exceptions.

What Can dryLang Do?

• HTTP Server — Built-in op() starts a web server (powered by Go's net/http)
• SQL Database — Built-in db() connects to SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• HTTP Client — Built-in req() fetches data from any URL
• JSON — Built-in json() parses JSON into native maps/arrays
• Module System — Import local files, URLs, or directly from GitHub repos
• File I/O — Read, write, list, and delete files
• System Commands — Execute shell commands, read env variables
• Advanced Math — sqrt, pow, trig, log via math()
• 38 Built-in Functions — all with 1–4 character names