Tour of Duck | ducklang

📄️ Hello World

Duck is a compiled, statically type-checked language based on an expressive type system and the go runtime.

Primitives are the following types:

In duck, almost anything is an expression

Structs are nominally typed (meaning they must be exactly the same definition to be considered compatbile) data types

Ducks are types that need a minimum of fields

Union types are types that

JSON is supported out of the box.

Use the async keyword with a function call to execute the function call in parallel.

Use the defer keyword with a function call to execute the function call after

Duck has support for both Server Side Rendering using duckx and Client Components with jsx and preact

You can use go {} blocks everywhere as an expression

Auto traits are compiler generated implementations for commonly needed behaviour such as converting to string,

In duck you can easily create a HttpServer using the std::http module.