What Is It

Nemerle is a high-level statically-typed programming language for the .NET platform. It offers functional, object-oriented and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful meta-programming system.

Features that come from the functional land are variants, pattern matching, type inference and parameter polymorphism (aka generics). The meta-programming system allows great compiler extensibility, embedding domain specific languages, partial evaluation and aspect-oriented programming.

To find out more, please visit: http://nemerle.org/

Quick sample

Hello world

Create hello.n:

using System.Console;

WriteLine("Hello world")

Compile and run

"C:\Program Files\Nemerle\ncc.exe" hello.n /out:hello.exe
hello.exe

Will output

Hello world

Install

Windows

Install latest msi package from http://nemerle.org/

Linux, Mono

Download latest binary package from http://nemerle.org and export Nemerle=/path/to/binaries/extracted

How to build

Windows

Run DevBuildQuick.cmd or DevBuildQuick-4.cmd depend on required netfx version. Compiler output will be placed at bin/Debug/net-{fx-version}/Stage1.

Note: for building Visual Studio bindings you need VSSDK and administrative rights.

Linux

Nemerle can't bootstrap itself on Mono, but can be used as binaries.

What about IDE?

• Visual Studio 2008 integration installed by Nemerle installer
• Visual Studio 2010 integration is not released, but works and can be builded manually, see snippets/VS2010/readme.txt
• Sharp Develop 3.0 addin can be builded manually. See snippets/sharpdevelop/ReadMe.txt
• See Vim, Emacs, Kate and other editors syntax support in the 'misc' folder

Repository structure

• Nemerle compiler sources (ncc/),
• Nemerle Documentation (doc/),
• standard Nemerle library (lib/),
• standard Nemerle macros (macros/),
• some examples of Nemerle programs (snippets/),
• a few useful tools (e.g. synatx highlighting modes) (misc/),
• binary Nemerle compiler needed to compile itself (boot/, boot-4.0/).
• Nemerle realted tools (e.g. relector addin) (tools/)
• Visual Studio 2008 integration (VsIntegration/)

Contacts

• Nemerle forum: http://groups.google.com/group/nemerle-en
• Nemerle Russian forum: http://rsdn.ru/forum/nemerle/