Installing and Starting

Getting it

Divooka Compute releases says where to get Divooka Compute and lists its versions.

It comes as one folder, and it needs nothing else installed: the runtime it is built on, the packages it offers and the tools beside it are all inside. A downloaded archive has to be extracted whole, and the folder kept together.

Starting it

Run DivookaCompute.exe in its folder. It opens on the start screen.

From here you can create a document, open one, or open a copy of an example. The window walks through the screen, and Your first program makes a document from it.

Opening a document or a folder from outside

• Drop a .dvk file onto DivookaCompute.exe, or open one with it from your file browser.
• With Divooka Compute open, drop files onto its window: a document opens in a tab of its own, a script or a note in a text tab, and a folder joins the workspace.
• From a command line, name the document: DivookaCompute.exe "C:\Work\My Program.dvk".
• --workspace followed by a folder opens it in the workspace panel: DivookaCompute.exe --workspace C:\Work.
• --light starts in the light theme, and --language followed by a language's name in that language - DivookaCompute.exe --language Chinese. Both can be changed at any time in Appearance and settings, which remembers the theme and the language you choose there; --light starts light whatever was chosen.

DivookaCompute.exe --help lists the options.

What it keeps on your computer

Divooka Compute works on your machine and sends nothing on its own: no account, no telemetry, no crash reports and no update check. Something leaves the machine only when you ask for it: the NuGet browser searches nuget.org when you type a search, a NuGet package a document declares is fetched from nuget.org when that document opens, a link in the help menu opens your browser, and a document you run reaches whatever services its own nodes call.

Besides the documents you save, it keeps three things in %AppData%\DivookaCompute: the list of recent documents; its preferences - the theme, the UI scale, the panel widths, the view toggles, the language and the other choices in Appearance and settings; and the Autosaves folder, where auto-save keeps its copies until a document is saved or closed - see Saving. About and help (the question mark in the title bar) ▸ Privacy says the same, with the folder's full path.

The folder it runs from

In the folder	What it is
Examples	The examples it ships, by category. They are opened as copies and never changed - see Examples.
Workloads	The starting sets of packages a new document can be made from - see Your first program.
Plugins	Editor plugins, one folder each. What they add is under the wrench on the toolbar; right-click the wrench to open this folder.
Licenses	The license of Divooka Compute and of every open-source component it ships, one file each.
stew.exe	Runs a document from a command line - see Exporting a program.
pure.exe, easy.exe	Pure and EasyShell, two command languages the terminal's + menu starts - see The window.
dvn.exe	Serves a Divooka Notebook document as a web page - see Divooka Notebook.
divooka-mcp.exe	Lets an AI assistant search, read and check Divooka documents through the Model Context Protocol; divooka-mcp --help says how to connect one.

The rest of the folder is the application and its packages. Leave it as it is.