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The Plasma programming language strikes a balance between <b>functional</b>
and <b>imperative</b> programming,
making it easier to write reliable and efficient software.
Plasma also has a strong focus on <b>concurrency</b> and <b>parallelism</b>,
and will eventually support automatic parallelisation.
Plasma is <b>under development</b> and is not usable yet.
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Its planned features include:
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  <li>side-effect free semantics,</li>
  <li>a strong, static and expressive type system,</li>
  <li>direct support for loops, arrays and streams,</li>
  <li>a foreign function interface (FFI) for integration with C,</li>
  <li>concurrency support with N:M threading,</li>
  <li>manual and automatic parallelisation</li>
  <li>MIT License</li>
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  <pre><b>func</b> fib(n : Int) -&gt; Int {
   <b>if</b> (n &lt; 2) {
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      <b>return</b> fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
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For more information see our
<a href="about.html">About page</a>,
and for detailed information about syntax and semantics take a look at the
<a href="docs/plasma_ref.html">Plasma Language Reference</a>
and the rest of the <a href="docs/">documentation</a>.
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<h2>Latest News</h2>

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See all <a href="news.html">news</a>.
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<h2>How can I help?</h2>

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The project is in its very early stages,
so there is both plenty of work to do yet that work is pretty specific.
Check our
<a href="https://github.com/PlasmaLang/plasma/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md">CONTRIBUTING.md</a>
file for information and suggestions.
Plasma's source code is hosted
<a href="https://github.com/PlasmaLang/plasma">on github</a>.
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