Geblang vs Python, PHP, and Node.js

Geblang is a statically typed scripting language for the work teams usually do in Python, PHP, or Node.js: command-line tools, automation, web services, and data processing. It keeps the quick, readable style of a scripting language and adds what those languages leave to add-ons.

Geblang vs Python

Enforced types instead of hints, null safety, every core without the GIL, data frames in the standard library, and one executable instead of a virtual environment.

Geblang vs PHP

Generics that exist at run time, request bodies typed by your classes, one concurrent server instead of PHP-FPM, and built-in HTTPS.

Geblang vs Node.js

Runtime-checked JSON without a schema library, async in parallel on every core, and a standard library instead of node_modules.

What Geblang adds to a scripting language

  • Types that hold at run time. Declared types, including generics, are checked before a program runs and enforced while it runs, on parsed input too. See the type system guide.
  • Null safety by default. A type holds null only when declared nullable with ?.
  • Parallel async. async tasks run on goroutines across every CPU core, with channels and select. See async and generators.
  • A batteries-included standard library. HTTP and WebSockets, SQL and Redis, data formats, crypto, logging and metrics, message queues, LLM clients, arrays and data frames. See the standard library.
  • One executable to deploy. geblang build bundles code, dependencies, and the runtime into a single file. See bundling and builds.
  • A complete toolchain. Checker, formatter, test runner, REPL, language server, and debugger ship together.

Frequently asked questions

What is Geblang?

Geblang is a statically typed scripting language. It keeps the quick, readable style of a scripting language, checks types before a program runs and enforces them while it runs, runs async tasks in parallel on every CPU core, and builds programs into one self-contained executable.

Who is Geblang for?

Developers who write command-line tools, automation, web services, and data processing in Python, PHP, or Node.js and want enforced types, real parallelism, and simpler deployment without leaving a scripting language.

Is Geblang free and open source?

Yes. Geblang and the Gebweb web framework are open source under the MIT license.

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