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The reference implementation is written in portable C89: "portable" in the sense that it tries to follow the ANSI C International Standard as strictly as possible. This does not mean, however, that the entire source is compatible with C++. The public API can be used from within a C++ program, though.
The Sparkling engine tries to make use of a bunch of convenient libraries in order to improve user experience. For instance, the REPL optionally uses the well-known readline library - if available - in order to provide basic line editing capabilities. Or, on OS X and iOS, the parser and runtime support library conditionally provide Objective-C bindings, so it's possible to call Objective-C methods directly from Sparkling, with proper Objective-C syntax. Neither of these features are required, though, nor do they impose a strong dependency on either libreadline or libobjc. The build system tries to guess if they are available and configures compilation accordingly.
The implementation is currently hosted on GitHub, at H2CO3/Sparkling[http://github.com/H2CO3/Sparkling].▼
▲The reference implementation is currently hosted on GitHub, at H2CO3/Sparkling[http://github.com/H2CO3/Sparkling].
== Syntax and semantics ==
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