Standard Library

Donna's standard library lives in a separate package:

code
donna_stdlib

It provides practical modules for strings, lists, ints, files, shell commands, time, options, results, dictionaries, booleans, floats, and more.

Add it through donna.toml.

code
[dependencies]
stdlib = { git = "https://github.com/donna-lang/donna_stdlib" }

Then import the modules you use.

code
import donna/string
import donna/list

pub fn main() -> Nil:
  let title = string.to_slug("Hello Donna")
  let total = list.sum([1, 2, 3])
  echo title
  echo string.from_int(total)

The standard library docs live separately.

Keeping stdlib separate lets it release independently. The compiler should not have to change every time a helper function gets better.

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