Feathers Standard Library
Supporting modular programming, Falcon ships with Feathers, the standard module suite, which integrates the built-in core module, containing the basic I/O and language-integrated base functions, classes and objects.
Feather modules currently include:
- Compiler - Reflexive compiler and dynamic plugin loader module.
- Configuration Parser - Complete configuration file parser support.
- DBI - Allows you to connect to various open source databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
- JSON - Module converting Falcon data and objects to and from JavaScript Object Notation.
- Logging - High performance parallel logging facility.
- MXML - Very fast and simple Minimal XML parser (compatible with XML 1.0).
- Process - Interface to cross platform process support (start, kill, pipes...)
- Regular Expressions - PCRE 7.x compatible regular expression library interface.
- Socket - BSD sockets cross platform networking support.
- Threading (since 0.9.0) - Multithreading structures support.
- ZLib - Interface for simple compression routines.
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