Divooka Distributions
Every Divooka distribution is the same language running on the same runtime: a .dvk document written in one opens in another, and runs there, as long as the other has the nodes it uses. What differs is what each lets you do. This page sets them side by side by what you can do in each - writing programs, the nodes a program can use, building and sharing programs, the tools beside the editor, and help - and leaves out how any of it is made.
At a glance
|
For |
In one sentence |
| Divooka Explore |
learning, experimenting and everyday tasks |
One document at a time, every package but Machine Learning built in, nothing to set up, and a shelf of examples. |
| Divooka Explore Demo |
trying Divooka on procedural terrain |
Divooka Explore with only the procedural-terrain packages and two dozen examples. |
| Divooka Compute |
professional work and application development |
Many documents over a workspace, documents that reference packages and each other, two ways to run, a terminal, plugins, and programs you can publish. |
| Divooka Engine |
people building their own distributions |
Divooka Compute's editor with only the essential nodes: everything else comes from what a document references and from plugins. |
| Divooka Player |
running programs somebody shared with you |
No editor: drop a program on it, see what it is, and run it; free to pass on. |
Divooka Compute comes in two tiers. Standard is the one a person installs. Minimal is a smaller build for development: the whole editor and its tools, with only the essential packages and no examples. A company's Divooka Compute can also come as a corporate edition, installed from an installer made for that company, which asks for an access key once per computer and checks its licence at every start.
Writing programs
|
Explore |
Explore Demo |
Compute |
Engine |
Player |
| Documents open at once |
one |
one |
many, in tabs, over a workspace of folders |
many, as in Compute |
- |
| Graph kinds you can create |
Flows, Function, Events, Routine, Components and Type; a document holding any other kind opens, edits and runs |
as Explore |
every kind |
every kind |
- |
JSON documents (.dvj) |
opened as their text |
as Explore |
opened, edited and saved as documents |
as Compute |
run |
| Text and code files |
edited in the document's place, plain |
as Explore |
edited in tabs of their own, coloured |
as Compute |
- |
| Pictures, PDF, EPUB, Word and PowerPoint files |
viewed in the document's place |
as Explore |
viewed in tabs of their own |
as Compute |
- |
| Archives (zip, 7z, app bundles) |
listed, opened and extracted |
as Explore |
also added to, removed from, renamed in and saved |
as Compute |
an app bundle runs |
| Running |
interpreted, with the debugger: breakpoints, stepping, the call stack and locals |
as Explore |
interpreted with the debugger, or compiled; in the editor or in a process of its own |
interpreted with the debugger, or compiled |
runs a program, and stops it |
| Themes |
Dark |
Dark |
several built in, and theme files you add or customize |
Compute's |
its own light theme |
What a program can use
|
Explore |
Explore Demo |
Compute |
Engine |
Player |
| Nodes built in |
every package but Machine Learning |
Standard Library, Platform, Graph Editor Essentials, Event Applications, State Machines, Procedural Generation, Numerics and Image Processing |
Minimal: the essentials. Standard: every package, Machine Learning included |
the essentials alone: the language, arithmetic and logic, text, the console and the asset library, Graph Editor Essentials, Event Applications and State Machines |
every package Compute Standard has but Machine Learning |
| GPU kernels |
- |
- |
Standard |
- |
yes |
| A document's references: NuGet packages, DLLs, C# files and other documents |
left in the document and not loaded |
as Explore |
added, removed and loaded |
as Compute |
loaded, so a program that brings its own nodes runs |
| Editor plugins |
none |
none |
a Plugins folder beside the program and your own |
as Compute |
none |
| Python scripts and modules as nodes |
- |
- |
yes; Standard also carries numpy and pandas |
- |
- |
| Running C#, Lua and Python scripts |
- |
- |
yes |
- |
- |
A document written in Explore declares no packages, and reads in Compute against what that Compute ships; one written in Compute that uses a package Explore does not have, or a reference, shows those nodes as missing in Explore.
Building and sharing programs
|
Explore |
Explore Demo |
Compute |
Engine |
Player |
| Publish a document as a program of its own, for Windows or Linux, optionally as native code |
- |
- |
yes: the tools it builds with come with Compute |
- |
- |
| Methodox Action Maker: programs written as rows |
yes |
- |
Standard |
- |
- |
| Methodox App Maker: apps made by drawing their window |
- |
- |
Standard |
- |
- |
| Run a shared program without an editor |
- |
- |
- |
- |
yes |
|
Explore |
Explore Demo |
Compute |
Engine |
Player |
| A terminal with C#, Python, Lua and Easy Shell prompts |
- |
- |
yes |
- |
- |
stew, the command-line runner |
- |
- |
yes |
- |
- |
| A server AI assistants write documents through, and Divooka Central's command line |
- |
- |
Standard |
- |
- |
| TranslationTool, for translating the distribution |
- |
- |
Standard |
- |
- |
| Divooka Golem, the mascot |
yes |
- |
Standard |
- |
- |
Help, examples and languages
|
Explore |
Explore Demo |
Compute |
Engine |
Player |
| Examples |
the Explore pack |
Basics and Procedural Terrains, 24 documents |
Standard: the Explore and Compute packs |
none |
none |
| The built-in Methodox Wiki, offline |
in the help menu, and as Methodox Wiki beside the program |
as Explore |
as Explore |
online |
online |
| Languages |
English, 中文 and 繁體中文 |
as Explore |
as Explore |
as Explore |
as Explore, starting in the computer's own |
Divooka Player
Divooka Player is for the person a program is shared with. Dropped on its window, or opened from its file, a program opens on its page: what it says about itself, how large and complex it is, what runs it, and what can be set before it runs. A program with nothing to set, one given its inputs on the command line, and a desktop application - which runs with no Player window at all, as a program of its own would - run at once. A program's inputs are its own command-line options: DivookaPlayer "Tally.dvk" --Name Ada --Count 3, and DivookaPlayer "Tally.dvk" --help lists them. It has an installer, which puts it in the Start menu and opens .dvk, .dvj and .dvb files with it where no other program opens them, and it may be passed on freely, whole.
How large each is
About 2.5 GB for Divooka Compute Standard, which carries the tools Publish builds with and a browser engine for previews; about 770 MB for Divooka Explore; about 520 MB for the Explore Demo; about 630 MB for Divooka Player; about 310 MB for Divooka Engine.
See also
