Idio By Example

Idio is a programming language for orchestrating commands like a shell. It is asking the question, can we write better shell scripts by integrating shell-like constructions into a programming language?

• Getting Started
• Hello World
• General Style
• Comments
• Equality
• Constants
• Numbers
• Unicode Code Points
• Strings
• Symbols
• C Types
• Pairs/Lists
• Arrays
• Hash Tables
• Structs
• Bitsets
• Command Values
• Variables
• Blocks
• If/Else
• Cond
• Case
• C Style Looping
• For Style Loops
• Functions
• Closures
• Recursion
• Regexps
• Sorting
• Errors
• File Handles
• Filenames
• File Predicates
• Path Functions
• String Handles
• Reading From Handles
• Writing To Handles
• Temporary Files
• Loading Files
• IDIOLIB
• Modules
• JSON
• Idio Object System
• Expect
• SHASUM
• libc
• libcurl
• zlib
• sqlite3

Shell

• Commands
• I/O Redirection
• Pipelines
• Collecting Output
• Piping To/From Commands
• Command Errors
• Logical Expressions
• Environment Variables
• Subshells

Last built at 2025-06-24T06:11:14Z+0000 from 77077af (dev) for Idio 0.3