Data types
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The Huxon language provide several common data types to be used for creating applications.
All the data types are located within the **hux** namespace.

When developing applications it is important not to make any assumption on the number of bytes for types 
such as **int**. Indeed, the code written with the Huxon language might be compiled and deployed on systems
ranging from low-power embedded devices to high-end servers over which the number of bytes used by **int** differs.

Whenever possible the Huxon common data types should be used.

.. note::
    The output data of a processing node should always use Huxon common data types to avoid size mismatches
    between code deployed on remote nodes.

Huxon language also offers :cpp:class:`hux::tuple` as an alternative to *std::tuple*. The main benefit of using 
:cpp:class:`hux::tuple` is that an :cpp:class:`hux::tuple` made of trivially copyable types is itself trivially copyable.
All outputs of processing nodes and channels are required to be trivially copyable.

.. doxygenfile:: types.hpp
    :sections: innernamespace briefdescription detaileddescription typedef enum func innerclass public-attrib public-func public-static-attrib public-static-func public-type