DLTK (Dynamic Languages Toolkit) — is a tool for vendors, researchers, and end-users who rely on dynamic languages. DLTK is a set of extensible frameworks designed to reduce the complexity of building full featured development environments for dynamic languages such as

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and

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. Besides a set of frameworks DLTK provides exemplary Tcl, Ruby, Javascript and Python development environments.

History

In 2005 Xored Software inc. proposed Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit Project to the

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and it was approved in 2006. In 2007 Eclipse DLTK was released as a part of Eclipse Europa. From that moment on, every Eclipse Simultaneous Release comprises a new version of DLTK. Since its very first release, DLTK has been used in various open-source and commercial Eclipse-based development projects. CodeGear releases commercial version of ( 3rdRail) development framework (IDE) for Ruby language and

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framework based on DLTK.

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leading PDT (PHP Development tools) project sets DLTK base starting from 1.1 version.

References

External links

DLTK page

Source code

Dynamic Languages Toolkit proposal

DLTK developer, Code Contributor
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History

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