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In Argentum lambdas are special functions: Syntax Lambda type declarations: If functions, methods or delegates take lambdas as parameters, these lambda types need to be declared: When creating lambdas, their parameters and return types are inferred from the first call…

The first language iteration is almost over. It’s time to revise some previously made decisions on syntax and semantic. Nowadays Argentum has too many syntax for strings – single and multiline, with and without interpolation, strings are defined with “”…

Argentum programs can interact with web servers: The httpClient module features:

Argentum got SQLite integration: Build & run: It prints (depending on the actual content of the database): This code: Other supported features not shown in this demo: Limitations:

Argentum standard library has three hash maps: Map, SharedMap, WeakMap. Most of design details of Maps are similar to Arrays: These maps are unordered key-value containers, where: Internally they are implemented as flat, open addressed, 2n grow, linear probe, robin…

Argentum has no built-in Arrays Other languages have built-in arrays (and some even have built-in maps), but these built-in data structures quickly become insufficient. So the parallel containers from the standard libraries emerge. They quickly surpass and replace the built-in…

Argentum Objects got two methods: getHash and equals. They look much like Java, but there are multiple nuances. Hash-codes Comparisons String literals