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Clay is a language for generic programming. See http://tachyon.in/clay/ for an introduction and for precompiled binaries.

Documentation

Pending proper formal documentation once the language stabilizes, here is some ad-hoc documentation to help new users get started, document common design patterns and pitfalls, etc.:

• Syntax desugaring (including operator overloads)
• Clay for C++ programmers
• Clay for Java/Python/Ruby/etc. programmers
• Value semantics in Clay
• Overview of lib-clay
• Standard library protocols
  • Sequence, iterator, and coordinate protocols
  • Stream protocol
• Avoiding generic programming pitfalls

Active development

KS is currently working on a new implementation of the Clay compiler. This new compiler is written in Clay itself, and will feature a more distinct compile time environment as well as other language changes:

• Metaclay
• Upcoming language and library changes in the Clay-in-Clay implementation

Once the new compiler is stable, we will be able to explore improvements to the language and library.

Proposed language features

Template

• Implicit argument conversion
• Protocols
• Extensible variant representation and dispatch
• Safer pointer type system
• Guaranteed optimizations
• Pattern blocks
• Cull keyword explosion
• Miscellaneous syntax improvements

Libraries

• Unicode string and string encoding support