Welcome

Mantra (Hindi for "magical incantation") is a new dynamically-typed
programming language that is syntactically similar to Java but with
the flexibility and ease of programming of Ruby or Python. Mantra is
not an interpreted language. Source code is translated to Java and so
mantra programs integrate trivially with plain Java code.

Mantra is meant as a research platform and to teach language design and implementation. Nonetheless, it should prove a nice little language.

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Bugs

http://www.antlr.org:8888/browse/MANTRA

Previous versions

Friday, February 8, 2008

Added JavaProxyObject!

You can now refer to any regular Java object from within mantra simply by using a variant on the import statement:

import java java.util.Vector;

Vector v = Vector();
v.add("hi");
v.add(34);
println(v.toString());
println(v.get(0));
println(v.get(1));

Field access works as well for now, it translates only string and integer objects to mantra objects. For other objects, it leads them as Java objects wrapped in a JavaProxyObject.