Nemerle
Nemerle is a general-purpose, high-level, statically typed programming language designed for platforms using the Common Language Infrastructure (.NET/Mono). It offers functional, object-oriented, aspect-oriented, reflective and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a powerful metaprogramming system.
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: aspect-oriented, event-driven, functional, generic, imperative, meta, object-oriented, reflective |
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| Family | C# |
| Designed by | Kamil Skalski, Michał Moskal, Prof. Leszek Pacholski, Paweł Olszta at Wrocław University |
| Developer | JetBrains (formerly) RSDN |
| First appeared | 2003 |
| Stable release | 1.2.507.0
/ 6 August 2016 |
| Typing discipline | Inferred, nominal, static, strong |
| Platform | CLI |
| Filename extensions | .n |
| Website | nemerle |
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| C#, Lisp, ML | |
In June 2012, the core developers of Nemerle were hired by the Czech software development company JetBrains. The team was focusing on developing Nitra, a framework to implement extant and new programming languages. Both the Nemerle language and Nitra have seemingly been abandoned or discontinued by JetBrains; Nitra has not been updated by its original creators since 2017 and Nemerle is now maintained entirely by the Russian Software Development Network, independently from JetBrains, although no major updates have been released yet and development is progressing very slowly. Neither Nemerle, nor Nitra have been mentioned or referenced by JetBrains for years.
Nemerle is named after the Archmage Nemmerle, a character in the fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.