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LP Language Wiki

This wiki documents the LP language, compiler, runtime modules, and competitive programming workflow.

Start Here

If you are new to LP, read these pages in order:

1. Installation and Setup
2. First Programs
3. Language Basics
4. Quick Reference
5. Troubleshooting

Choose A Path

Learn the language

• Language Basics for syntax and everyday usage
• Language Reference for the complete public surface
• Expressions and Collections for strings, lists, dicts, tuples, and collection behavior
• Object-Oriented Programming for classes and inheritance
• Error Handling for try, except, finally, and raise

Understand current feature support

• Feature Overview for a high-level overview
• Feature Status for implementation status and caveats
• Runtime Modules for built-in modules and their public contracts

Build, run, and package programs

• CLI and Tooling for lp commands
• Build and Distribution for artifact builds and targets
• C API Export for header and library export
• LP Linter for static checking

Work with concurrency, parallelism, and security

• Concurrency and Parallelism for thread.spawn, thread.join, locks, and parallel for
• Parallel and GPU Computing for OpenMP/GPU-oriented workflows
• Security Overview for the @security model
• Security Reference for detailed security options
• Security Calling Patterns for examples and calling patterns

Use LP for competitive programming

• DSA Module Guide for fast I/O and data structures
• Performance Guide for current performance guidance
• Compilation Troubleshooting for common CP-specific build failures
• Examples Cookbook for worked examples

Current Documentation Policy

This wiki now prioritizes verified behavior over planned behavior.

• The native ASM backend is the compiler default.
• On Windows, --gcc is the recommended verification path.
• Literal match cases, _ wildcard, and capture-pattern guards (case n if n > 10) are fully stable.
• Set literals and advanced threading paths are documented conservatively.

Common Destinations

• Quick Reference for a fast syntax cheat sheet
• Runtime Modules for module APIs such as time, json, sqlite, and thread
• Feature Status when you need to know whether a feature is fully supported, partial, or experimental
• Troubleshooting when a command or build path fails

Project Links

• GitHub repository
• Issue tracker
• Releases