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# Dust
Dust is a programming language and interactive shell. Dust can be used as a replacement for a traditional command line shell, as a scripting language and as a data format. Dust is fast, efficient and easy to learn.
Dust is a general purpose programming language that emphasises concurrency and correctness.
A basic dust program:
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}
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Dust is an interpreted, general purpose language with first class functions. It is *data-oriented*, with extensive tools to manage structured and relational data. Dust also includes built-in tooling to import and export data in a variety of formats, including JSON, TOML, YAML and CSV.
You can make *any* block, i.e. `{}`, run its statements in parallel by changing it to `async {}`.
```dust
if (random_boolean) {
(output "Do something...")
} else async {
(output "Do something else instead...")
(output "And another thing at the same time...")
}
```
Dust is an interpreted, dynamically typed language with first class functions. It emphasises concurrency by allowing any group of statements to be executed in parallel. It is *data-oriented*, with extensive tools to manage structured and relational data. Dust includes built-in tooling to import and export data in a variety of formats, including JSON, TOML, YAML and CSV.
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}
```
```dust
data = async {
(output "Reading a file...")