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headius/mirah

Mirah has moved to http://github.com/mirah/mirah
Source code at GitHub http://github.com/mirah/mirah
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Mirah

Section titled “Mirah”

Build Status

DESCRIPTION

Section titled “DESCRIPTION”

Mirah is a customizable programming language featuring static types, local type inference and a heavily Ruby-inspired syntax. Mirah currently includes a typer/compiler backend for the JVM which can output JVM bytecode.

FEATURES

Section titled “FEATURES”
  • Ruby-like syntax
  • Compiles to .class
  • Fast as Java
  • No runtime library

SYNOPSIS

Section titled “SYNOPSIS”
mirah <script.mirah>
mirah -e "inline script"
mirahc <script.mirah>
mirahc -e "inline script" # produces DashE.class

REQUIREMENTS

Section titled “REQUIREMENTS”
  • Java 1.7 or higher.

INSTALL

Section titled “INSTALL”

RUBY

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If your gem and rake are not from JRuby, prefix the commands with jruby -S

$ gem install mirah

JAR

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Mirah is distributed as a jar through maven central. You can download the latest jar from maven.org.

ZIP

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You can also install Mirah from a zip file. Download the latest stable release from https://github.com/mirah/mirah/releases. Extract it, and add bin to your $PATH to be able to use mirah, mirahc, etc.

SOURCE

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Setup building locally and installing from source, you’ll need jruby 1.7.12 or higher. Then just follow these commands.

To get the repository setup locally run the following:

Section titled “To get the repository setup locally run the following:”
$ git clone http://github.com/mirah/mirah.git
$ cd mirah
$ bundle install

To install mirah as a gem from source:

Section titled “To install mirah as a gem from source:”
$ rake gem
$ gem install pkg/mirah-*.gem

To create the mirahc jar:

Section titled “To create the mirahc jar:”
$ rake dist/mirahc.jar

This will create a mirahc.jar file in dist that you can run to compile mirah source files. 404: Not Found