Oxide is a clean, expressive scripting language built for the modern developer. Whether you're transforming data, automating workflows, building APIs, or exploring time-based events, Oxide empowers you with elegant syntax and a practical standard library—designed to make complex operations feel intuitive.

• Why Choose Oxide?
• What Can You Do with Oxide?
• Who Is Oxide For?
• Getting Started
• Operators
• Core/Language examples
• Platform examples

Write less, do more. Concise expressions, intuitive chaining, and minimal boilerplate make Oxide a joy to use.

Built-in modules like io, math, http, and more cover the essentials—without reaching for external libraries.

Use ::: to build seamless transformation pipelines—perfect for chaining, mapping, filtering, and data shaping.

Call an API, parse the response, and persist results—in a single line of code.

Inspired by functional programming, Oxide is readable, predictable, and powerful enough for real-world use without excess noise.

GET https://api.example.com/users

users = [ { name: 'Tom' }, { name: 'Sara' } ]
names = users::map(u -> u.name)

DateTime::new::plus(30::days)

let arr = [1, 2, 3, 4]
arr::filter(x -> (x % 2) == 0)::map(x -> x * 10)

• Data Engineers & Analysts — quick scripting for time and table-based operations.
• Web Developers — seamless API interactions and response transformations.
• Scripters & Hackers — ideal for automation, file operations, and glue code.
• Language Enthusiasts — a functional-style pipeline DSL with just enough structure.

cargo build --release

Artifacts will be in ./target/release/:

• oxide – Oxide REPL / Server

cargo test

🔬 Over 800 tests (and counting) ensure Oxide's reliability and edge-case coverage.

The remainder of this document showcases categorized usage examples across Oxide's standard modules including:

• io, math, os, oxide and http.

To improve navigation, consider splitting the examples into separate markdown files or auto-generating docs from code annotations using a tool like mdBook, Docusaurus, or a custom Rust doc generator.

Oxide provides a rich set of binary operators for arithmetic, logic, assignment, comparison, bitwise manipulation, and expressive data flow. This document summarizes the available operators and their intended semantics.

cargo build --release

You'll find the executables in ./target/release/:

• oxide_repl is the Oxide REST client / REPL
• oxide_server is the Oxide REST Server