GOSU PROGRAMMING

Gosu introduction

Gosu is a general-purpose programming language built on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Because Gosu uses the JVM, Gosu includes the following features:

• Java compatible, so you can use Java types, extend Java types, and implement Java interfaces
• Object-orientation
• Easy to learn, especially for programmers familiar with Java
• Imperative paradigm

Gosu includes the following additional features:

• Static typing, which helps you find errors at compile time.
• Type inference, which simplifies your code and preserves static typing.
• Blocks, which are in-line functions that you can pass around as objects. Some languages call these closures or lambda expressions.
• Enhancements, which add functions and properties to other types, even Java types. Gosu includes built-in enhancements to common Java classes, some of which add features that are unavailable in Java (such as blocks).
• Generics, which abstracts the behavior of a type to work with multiple types of objects. The Gosu generics implementation is 100% compatible with Java, and adds additional powerful improvements.
• XML/XSD support.
• Web service (SOAP) support.

Large companies around the world use Gosu every day in production systems for critical applications.