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title: API Reference
description: Myrddin API Reference
}
This is the page where the Myrddin language is documented. You want to know
all the boring, dull details? Well, they're here.
APIs
----
### [Libstd](libstd)
The standard library. You'll probably be using it in all your code, because
it's the standard. It's intended to cover a good portion of the functionality
that you'll need for any program. It's a bit of a grab bag, but can be roughly
categorized into the following subsections:
- [Memory Allocation](libstd/alloc): All of your memory allocation needs.
- [Error Handling](libstd/err): Convenient utilities for aborting your program.
- [OS Interfaces](libstd/os): Ask not what you can do for your OS, ask what
your OS can do for you.
- [File Handling](libstd/files): Sometimes data just wants to persist.
- [Networking](libstd/networking): Communicating with other sytems isn't just
a fad.
- [Command Line Parsing](libstd/cli): Makes it easy to parse options from the
commad line.
- [Formatted Output](libstd/fmt): I/O. Without monads.
- [Variadic Arguments](libstd/varargs): If you want ugly APIs, we've got you
covered.
- [Slice manipulation](libstd/slices): Some generic functions. Easy to write
yourself, but a bit tedious.
- [String Manipulation](libstd/strings): Some unicode aware string poking.
- [Unicode](libstd/unicode): Wait a second, all languages aren't english?
- [Pervasive Data Structures](libstd/datastruct): At least, I use them a lot.
If you use them too, we've got you covered.
- [Misc](libstd/misc): Random crap that doesn't really fit into a category.
### [Libsys](libsys)
Libsys is a direct interface to system calls provided by the platform. It is
- [Linux Syscalls](libsys/linux)
- [OSX Syscalls](libsys/osx)
- [FreeBSD Syscalls](libsys/freebsd)
- [Plan 9 Syscalls](libsys/plan9)
### [Libbio](/myrddin/doc/libbio)
This is a buffered IO library. It allows for many small reads and writes to be
done with better performance than writing a system call for each one. On top
of that, it allows for more convenient interfaces to handle linewise or
delimited input, where peeking at the input stream may be necessary.
### [Libregex](/myrddin/doc/libregex)
This is a regex library, as implied by the name. It implements a simple but
powerful regex syntax, with full unicode support. It also exposes the regex
syntax tree if needed, which is useful for code that wants custom regex
handling, but wants to remain consistent with the regexes in hairless.
### [Libcryptohash](/myrddin/doc/libcryptohash)
This is a library that handles cryptographic hashes. It implements many of the
most common cryptographic hashes, and provides a fairly consistent interface
to it.
### [Libdate](/myrddin/doc/libdate)
Libdate provides a fairly complete interface for manipulating dates, times,
and timezones. It handles adding durations and periods to dates, formatting
and parsing dates.
### [Libthread](/myrddin/doc/libthread)
Libthread is currently half assed and broken, and it doesn't work very well
with libstd, which is not yet thread aware. This needs work.
Utilities
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### [Mbld](/myrddin/doc/mbld)
Mbld is the Myrddin build tool. It knows how to handle source and library
dependencies, as well as build generated sources.
### [Hairless](/myrddin/doc/mbld)
Hairless is the Myrddin parser generator. It's currently in a half-finished
state, but is quit