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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

Section titled “RUBY”

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

$ gem install mirah

JAR

Section titled “JAR”

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

ZIP

Section titled “ZIP”

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

Section titled “SOURCE”

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