Here's a bunch of example code contributed by the community for interfacing with statsd in a variety of languages.
Etsy/StatsD.pm - perl module
perl-example.pl - perl using Etsy/StatsD module
StatsdClient.java - JAVA
csharp_example.cs - C#
php-example.php - PHP
python_example.py - Python
ruby_example.rb - Ruby
statsd.erl - Erlang
statsd-client.sh - Bash
StatsD.scala - Scala
statsd.go - Go
StatsdClient.jl - Julia
Client libraries have been written for various languages, and are listed on the Wiki.
Thankyou to all the contributors!