📦 Library Distribution

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Ocean should be able to support installing libraries for various programming languages. To achieve this, it should piggyback off of existing build systems and maybe also other package managers.

Languages

• C

  Kind: Compiled

  ABI: Platform-specified

• C++

  Kind: Compiled

  ABI: Unstable

• D

  Kind: Compiled

  ABI: Platform-specific (details)

• Go

  Kind: Compiled

• Haskell

  Kind: Compiled

• Swift

  Kind: Compiled, Interpreted

  ABI: Stable (see ABIStabilityManifesto.md)

• Java

  Kind: Bytecode (run by JVM)

• WebAssembly

  Kind: Bytecode

• C#

  Kind: Bytecode (run by .NET)

• Python

  Kind: Interpreted

• JavaScript

  Kind: Interpreted

• Ruby

  Kind: Interpreted

• Perl

  Kind: Interpreted