MoonBit Development Guide

Quick Start

MoonBit is an expression-oriented language with garbage collection (no lifetimes/ownership). Key characteristics:

• Expression-oriented: if, match, loops return values
• Block separator: Use ///| between top-level declarations
• Error handling: Checked errors with raise keyword, automatic propagation
• Packages: No import in code; configure in moon.pkg/moon.pkg.json

Agent Workflow

Follow this order for reliable task execution: