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Ufy is a general purpose scripting language. Its aims are to be:

• easy
• cross-platform
• multi-threaded
• object oriented
• extensible
• distributable
• introspective
• small

ufy is open source, licensed under the GPL.

Since one of its aims is to be small, the executable itself comes quite bare. There are a few standard function modules which enable IO, string manipulation and introspection. Since it's cross-platform, none of these functions enable something on one platform and not on the other. Extended functionality comes (and should come) from scripted implementions in libraries. In fact, a standard ufy install has its own dependency for its standard libraries partly in scripts.

Further elaboration on ufy's aims:

• It's multi-threaded: this comes with standard functionality and the keywords 'clone' and 'lock'. ufy's threads are always native ones; no emulation is done.
• It's object oriented: one can make definitions of class, protect namespace, overload operators, inherit multiple super-classes and define destructors.
• It's extensible through inclusions of other source code, and the use of modules which can be native (a comprehensive API is provided), or source code
• or remote, accross TCP/IP (distributed interpreters).
• Standard functionality provides insight into the inner workings of the interpreter, its threads, and its instances.
• Yet none of this should come in the way of someone who wants to write a simple four-line script to connect to a service and fetch something from it. Or print out a calender for the current month.

Current status of the project:

• Alpha - do not use where you expect predictable, integrous results.
• With binary modules implementing dbm, postgres, oracle functionality.
• With binary modules implementing gmp, ncurses and gui widgets underway.
• A sourcecode layer for standard libraries has been implemented.
• There are sourcecode libraries for cgi, database access, synchronization devices and types, among others.

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