About Matchbox

Matchbox is a general-purpose programming language designed for speed, portability, expressive syntax, and a unified toolchain. It compiles .mb source files into bytecode, which runs on the Matchbox virtual machine.

The project is currently focused on building a small, understandable foundation. Matchbox 0.2.1 includes integer values, variables, expressions, user-defined functions, arithmetic and bitwise operations, an interactive prompt, and a growing set of built-in functions.

Open Source

Matchbox is open source and licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

• Download Matchbox
• Source code
• Documentation

Development Status

Matchbox is in early development and currently at version 0.2.1. The current release supports Windows and a deliberately limited language surface. Features such as strings, conditions, loops, collections, file access, and standard input are not available yet.

See the Current Limitations for the precise version-specific list.