Projects

Python programming language

Python is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report ... [More] substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of better code. [Less]

Ruby

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable. The Ruby logo is copyright © 2006, Yukihiro Matsumoto. ... [More] It is released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. [Less]

Erlang

Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Ericsson released the entire source code of the Erlang system including extensive libraries of code for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications.

Parrot

Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode ... [More] translator. Parrot is not about parrots, though we are rather fond of them for obvious reasons. [Less]

Rubinius

Rubinius is an execution environment for the Ruby programming language. It is comprised of three major pieces: a compiler, a 'kernel' (otherwise known as the Ruby Core Library), and a virtual machine. The project's goal is to create a top-of-the-line Ruby implementation.

Io Language

Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

GNU Smalltalk

GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.

Google V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google. V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd edition, and runs on Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and Linux systems that use IA-32 ... [More] or ARM processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application. [Less]

MacRuby

MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework. While still a work in progress, it is the goal of MacRuby to enable the creation of full-fledged Mac OS X ... [More] applications which do not sacrifice performance in order to enjoy the benefits of using Ruby. [Less]

The Slate Programming Language

OverviewThis is the source management site for the Slate programming language. Getting StartedTo get started with Slate, you need: A VM: Some pre-built VMs are available in the Downloads section. Or, get the sources via one of our repositories (cloning an hg or git repository or extracting a ... [More] tarball), and build using 'make'. A pre-made Slate image. Download the appropriate Slate image from our Downloads section. Currently we support all little-endian systems with a GCC toolchain or Visual Studio out of the box, with either a 32-bit or 64-bit build of VM and image equally supported. Build instructions are contained within the README in the source tree. If tweaks are required for your platform, please let us know so we can improve our support. Finally, run "./slate -i imagefile.image" Release PracticesWe are not currently making versioned releases, but image snapshots with the latest core library updates are uploaded mid-month or at the end of the month after confirming basic stability. If the images are not dated recently, that should be because they're still compatible with source trees from that date onward. IssuesStability should be steadily improving, and any major crashes are worth reporting. [Less]