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Chuks Language Data Types

DEV Community·Chukwuemeka Igbokwe·about 1 month ago
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Stop fighting your data. Let dataType win. Most languages make you choose between the safety of structs and the convenience of maps. Chuks gives you both, with built-in validation, generics, embedding, and nullable safety baked right into the type system. chuks dataType is a lightweight, fields-only container. No constructor boilerplate. No class overhead. Initialize with a map literal and the compiler checks every field. @validate : one annotation, full validation. Attach validation rules directly to fields. Call validate(x) and get back every error. No third-party library. No schema duplication. It lives with your data. Custom validators: your rules, first class Need a strongPassword rule? Write a function, annotate it with @validator, and use it in any dataType across your whole codebase, including imported modules. Nullable types + type narrowing Append ? to any type and it can hold null. Chuks does control-flow analysis, after a null guard, the compiler narrows the type automatically. No casts.…

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