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What is XP Language?

XP Language is easy to start with for people coming from a PHP background. It's built on top of the excellent XP Framework and extends its functionality by supportive syntax. XP Language is object-oriented and feature-rich, supporting multiple styles of expressing yourself. XP Language is open to be compiled to various output formats. Currently the compiler offers production-ready support for emitting PHP sourcecode. The XP Compiler tracks types for all expressions, and can warn about potentially unsafe operations such as invoking non-existant methods.

Hello World

Here's the typical hello world program written in XP Language and how it's compiled and run:

```groovy public class HelloWorld { public static void main(string[] $args) { util.cmd.Console::writeLine('Hello World!'); } } ```

```sh $ xcc HelloWorld.xp # [...] $ xp HelloWorld Hello World! </td></tr></table> Getting started -- In order to use XP Language, you need PHP and the XP Framework on your computer. [Once that is done](https://github.com/xp-framework/xp-framework/wiki/setup.framework), you can use the XP Installer: 1. Create a path in your home directory for globally available XP Modules. Let's use `~/.xp` for our example. 2. Add this path to the `use` directive in your `xp.ini`, using the path separator (`:` on Un*x, `;` on Windows)`use=/path/to/xp/core:~/.xp`). 3. Open a shell window, go to this directory and then type `xpi add xp-lang/compiler` You will now have the `xcc` command available from any path. The language itself -- Now that you're all set to go, start learning the language: TODO: These topics need to be created and filled with life! * [Basic syntax overview](wiki/syntax) Primitives, arrays and maps and their literals, classes, interfaces, enums, their members, conditionals, loops, exceptions and operators. * [Class members](wiki/classmembers) Self, parent and this, constructors, methods, fields, properties, compact syntax, static initializers, static members, array operations on objects with indexers. * [Organizing code](wiki/packages) Packages and imports, import on demand. * [Generics](wiki/generics) Working with generic types: Declaration and usage. * [Native functions](wiki/native) Using the underlying runtimes functionality such as `array_merge()` directly. * [Functional programming](wiki/closures) Closures vs. annymous class instances. For contibutors -- [Building a release](wiki/building-a-release)