Dynamic Languages Toolkit
| Company type | Open-source software project |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Xored Software Inc. |
Area served | Global |
| Products | Frameworks for dynamic programming languages development environments |
| Owner | Eclipse Foundation |
| Parent | Eclipse Foundation |
| Website | www |
DLTK (Dynamic Languages Toolkit) comprises a collection of adaptable frameworks aimed at facilitating the creation of comprehensive development environments tailored for dynamic programming languages like PHP and Perl. This toolkit serves the needs of vendors, researchers, and users who depend on dynamic languages. Beyond its foundational frameworks, DLTK provides model development environments for languages including Tcl, Ruby, JavaScript, and Python.
History
The Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit Project was introduced by Xored Software inc. in 2005 to the Eclipse Foundation, receiving approval in 2006. The initial release of Eclipse DLTK occurred in 2007 within the Eclipse Europa release and has been part of every subsequent Eclipse Simultaneous Release since then.
Following its debut, DLTK has been integrated into a variety of both open-source and commercial projects based on Eclipse. For instance, CodeGear developed a commercial Ruby IDE named 3rdRail, built on DLTK, specifically for Ruby on Rails development. Moreover, the PHP Development Tools (PDT) project by Zend Technologies has utilized DLTK as its underlying platform starting with version 1.1.