README.md

Runtime Library

Folder: ./lib_ecstasy/

Status: In Progress

This directory contains the Ecstasy code for the core ecstasy.xtclang.org module.
The XVM is tightly coupled with this module.
It compiles, but there's a lot of stuff not done, and a lot of stuff missing.
Major reorganization still occurs periodically; the organization will not be required to be stable until we approach the 1.0 release.
There's a separate, related directory (./javatools_bridge/) that is related to the proof-of-concept runtime.

Excellent examples to look at:

ecstasy.x - the module definition (the root of the runtime library); contains many small class definitions
Object.x - the root object
Service.x - key to understanding the concurrency model
Enum.x and Enumeration.x - the implementations for enum types
Boolean.x - to be or not to be
String.x - the name says it all
Array.x - the base array implementation
Iterable.x and Iterator.x - pretty obvious the 10th time around
fs/*.x - basic filing system APIs
annotations/*.x - mixins that apply to various things (like variables, methods, classes)