Introduction

Welcome to The Tortuga Programming Language, an introductory book about Tortuga.

Tortuga is a functionally-oriented concurrent programming language. The runtime is a Rust program to provide performance and memory safety; the language compiles to WebAssembly. Using WebAssembly allows developers to utilize their favorite programming language to write extensions for the runtime.

Who is Tortuga For

Tortuga is currently under active development and makes no guarantees about backwards compatibility. At this time, only use Tortuga for experimentation.