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Plugin reference

Every capability beyond the core language comes from a plugin: a native module that registers a namespace and a set of verbs. This is the reference for all 38 official plugins (766 functions), plus the six built-in extensions loaded with plugin "builtin:<name>";. Load a plugin with a plugin directive, then call its verbs as namespace.Verb(...).

Data & structures
Bytes, text, and in-memory collections.
blob8 fn
Helpers for raw byte buffers — build, dump, view by pointer.
str41 fn
A fast, comprehensive string toolkit (search, slice, replace, convert).
map18 fn
An ordered key/value map for script data.
queue14 fn
A FIFO queue for passing values between producers and consumers.
csv17 fn
Parse and build CSV data, field by field.
json26 fn
Parse and serialize JSON, with dot-notation path reads.
regex11 fn
POSIX extended regular expressions — match, capture groups, replace.
abi5 fn
ABI conformance probes for value vs. reference passing.
Files & system
The filesystem, processes, and standard streams.
fileio7 fn
Read and write whole files (text or binary), test existence, and delete.
path5 fn
Pure string helpers for filesystem paths — never touches the disk.
stdio6 fn
Direct access to standard input, output, and error streams.
process21 fn
Launch, wait for, and capture the output of child processes.
Output & logging
Writing to the console and to log files.
log12 fn
Leveled logging to console and/or rotating files.
Networking
HTTP, TCP, UDP, and TLS — direct and callback-driven.
web32 fn
URL, query-string, header, and HTTP message helpers.
tls17 fn
Client and server TLS over OpenSSL, loaded at runtime.
httpserver37 fn
An HTTP server that hands each request to a script callback; TLS and mutual TLS.
bus53 fn
An in-process message bus: open a subscription on a callback, send blobs or borrowed text to it, collect results by job id — the callback contract without a socket.
tcpserver63 fn
A TCP server that hands each connection's data to a script callback; TLS and mutual TLS.
udpserver9 fn
A UDP server that hands each datagram to a script callback.
udpclient12 fn
A UDP client: send datagrams, receive replies through a script callback.
tcpclient7 fn
A plain TCP client — lines or bytes, with timeouts.
Concurrency & runtime
Background work, timers, scheduling, and shared state.
asyncmeta44 fn
Metadata and control for the asynchronous / callback subsystem.
worker23 fn
A background worker pool that runs script callbacks off the main thread.
timer8 fn
Clocks, sleeping, and scheduled one-shot or repeating callbacks.
script_state4 fn
A small native-owned byte buffer the script can view as stable, callback-visible state.
random8 fn
A fast, seedable pseudo-random generator (not for cryptography).
math31 fn
Powers, roots, rounding, trigonometry and logarithms.
Graphics & media
Windowing, OpenGL, images, and video/audio.
sdl257 fn
Direct SDL2 — windows, rendering, textures, input, and audio.
sdl2image3 fn
The SDL2_image adapter — PNG, JPG, WebP, TIFF decoded into a pixel packet.
sdl2ttf10 fn
The SDL2_ttf adapter — TrueType text rendered into a pixel packet, or blended into one.
gl43 fn
A thin OpenGL surface plus its own window/context, event pump, and texture slots.
image2 fn
Load image files into pixel data for use as textures.
ffmpeg14 fn
Decode video/audio frames via FFmpeg.
Storage & crypto
Embedded and client-server SQL, plus cryptographic primitives.
sqlite47 fn
Embedded SQL via SQLite — prepared statements, transactions, queries.
mysql20 fn
Client to MySQL / MariaDB servers — the libmariadb C API mirrored 1:1.
postgres21 fn
PostgreSQL client over libpq — Exec and random-access result reads.
crypto10 fn
Cryptographic primitives — hashing, HMAC, and CSPRNG random bytes.
Built-in language extensions
Compiled into the runtime; load via plugin "builtin:<name>";
builtin:print14 fn
Console output — printf-style formatting (checked at compile time for literal formats), raw line/text writes, and the script's stderr channel.
builtin:blob1 fn
Capacity-overflow probe for the language's built-in blob type.
builtin:string3 fn
Overflow / capacity probes and printf-style string.Format.
builtin:os20 fn
CLI args, well-known paths, plus the os.Eval family for runtime script execution.
builtin:struct5 fn
The struct keyword + runtime schema mutation (global and per-instance).
builtin:plugin5 fn
Introspection — list loaded plugins and their exported functions.