Nemerle Homepage

• 1. About
• 2. News
• 3. Download
• 4. Documents
• 5. License
• 6. Authors and contact
  • 6.1. Mailing list
  • 6.2. Reporting bugs

1. About

Nemerle is a new programming language with the following planned features:

• Language with strong polymorphic typing compiled to CIL (.NET), similar to OCaml
• Type inheritance and dynamic types introduced on demand which makes programming less error prone but still as easy as in scripting languages
• Efficient integration of functional constructs with imperative and object oriented code together with high level optimizations that makes it possible to create efficient code with high level language
• Easy to write syntax extensions that make programming easier and facilitate the work on large projects
• Compatibility with CLI (Common Language Infrastructure, part of Microsoft's .NET framework) that gives access to a large set of libraries, code written in other languages and it works on different software platforms

2. News

• Jan 26 2004
  We're heading for the 0.1 release around Feb 15. IL code generator is now fully operational, we also can export and import Nemerle types in DLLs. Macros has undergone much redesign.
• Jan 4 2004
  Pawel Olszta works on IL code generation using System.Reflection.Emit to replace our current approach with C# compiler in the middle. He was also working on Nemerle type export/import using extended attributes. Michal Moskal has implemented tail recursion elimination, some limited type inference and rewritten parser in Nemerle. Kamil Skalski has been working on macros -- several macros are fully functional now (printf, for, using). He also rewrite lexer in Nemerle. Compiler contains no C# sources any more. Dawid Duda has written few standard library modules.
• Nov 26 2003
  Cleanups in documentation. Progress is being made in the compiler, particularly in CLS connectivity section (Pawel Olszta) and macros (Kamil Skalski).
• Nov 17 2003
  Bugtracking system has been set up at http://nemerle.org/bugs/. Activity is monitored in new mailing list bugs/at/nemerle.org.
• Oct 29 2003
  Jacek has updated hacking.html file to list build requirements. He also updated our build system by adding custom configure script.
• Oct 26 2003
  ncc can finally bootstrap itself.
• Oct 23 2003
  Some preliminary development info in hacking.html.

3. Download

We have already bootstraped Nemerle compiler codenamed ncc. It's rather limited but capable of compiling itself. Therefore OCaml is no longer needed to compile ncc. You just need .NET runtime environment. OCaml is still needed for xspp, that is needed for building documentation, though. However all generated documentation is available from this site.

• Version of this page for offline browsing: download/nemerle-web.tar.gz. It does not include compiler and documentation sources.
• Latest compiler and documentation source snapshot: download/nemerle-latest.tar.gz.
• Compiler and documentation source snapshots in download/.
• Project sources are kept in Subversion repository. You can access it with web browser at http://nemerle.org/cgi-bin/svn/, or with Subversion (or other WebDAV enabled client) at http://nemerle.org/svn/. You can also use http://nemerle.org:81/svn/ or https://nemerle.org/svn/ to bypass HTTP proxies. We also provide hourly incremental dumps of repository at svn-backup/.

4. Documents

Documents in suggested reading order:

• Preliminary version of Introduction to Nemerle (available as [ps.gz] [ps] [pdf] [pdf.gz]).
• Reference Manual -- work in progress
• Macros
• FAQ
• Random notes for developers

5. License

The language implementation and this documentation is licensed under free-for-any-use BSD-like license. You can find copy of license here.

6. Authors and contact

The language is being worked on at the Computer Science Institute of University of Wroclaw.

If you are student, you can have a look at the page of Nemerle course tought at our institute.

Any comments (especially constructive critique :-)) is welcomed. Please email us: feedback/at/nemerle.org (anti-spam: please change /at/ to @).

6.1. Mailing list

We have moved mailing list from nemerle/at/pld-linux.org, and split it. For more information about available mailing list see http://nemerle.org/mailman/listinfo/. You can also find links to archives and subscription form there. The mailing list archives provide search capability.

6.2. Reporting bugs

The preferred way of reporting bugs is using our bug tracker. You can find it at http://nemerle.org/bugs/. If you have any problems using the web interface feel free to mail us at feedback/at/nemerle.org.

There is also mailing list bugs/at/nemerle.org, but only bug tracker system can post to it.