MBase: A unique .NET-oriented metaprogramming framework for rapid compiler development

Up until now no usable, small, efficient, self-bootstrapping metaprogramming language has been available for .NET. MBase closes this gap: this easily embeddable compact framework provides a pragmatically balanced set of features required for the rapid compilers and interpreters implementation.

MBase is more than just another programming language, it is the only .NET-centric programming language building tool that has all the special features required for compilers design:

• Natural abstract syntax trees support
• Efficient AST visitors' DSL
• Advanced pattern matching
• Embedded Prolog
• Various .NET type system oriented tools
• Easy to use lexing and parsing DSLs
• Trendy PEG/Packrat implementation
• Automatic generation of syntax highlighting and pretty-printing for every user-defined language
• Various target languages with different semantics

Here you can download a technology preview release of MBase, version 0.6.

COPYING
MBase v 0.6 [Technology Preview] (c) by Meta Alternative Ltd, 2005-2008
MBase technology preview comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Permission to use and redistribute the unmodified binary files for any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this copyright notice will appear in all copies.

• Tutorial: a gentle introduction into DSL implementation techniques.
• MBase Technology Preview 0.6,
  generic distribution (.NET 2.0/3.x, Mono 1.2.6 or higher)
• MBase Reference Manual (0.6).
• An example: Minim language compiler implementation.
• Arc compiler: Arc-like language compiler implemented in MBase.

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