Dynamic Languages Toolkit

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 PHP and Perl.^[2] Besides a set of frameworks DLTK provides exemplary Tcl, Ruby, Javascript and Python development environments.

DLTK

Initial release	29 June 2007; 17 years ago (2007-06-29)
Stable release	R6.2 / 2 May 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-02)[1]
Preview release	R6.3 / 11 June 2020; 4 years ago (2020-06-11)[1]
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
Platform	Eclipse
Type	Framework, Integrated development environment (IDE)
License	Eclipse Public License
Website	www.eclipse.org/dltk/

History

In 2005 Xored Software inc.^[3] proposed Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit Project to the Eclipse Foundation 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.^[4]

CodeGear releases commercial version of (3rdRail) development framework (IDE) for Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework based on DLTK.^[5] Zend Technologies leading PDT (PHP Development tools) project sets DLTK base starting from 1.1 version.

See also

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