MatchBox — BoxLang Without the JVM

Overview

MatchBox is a native Rust implementation of the BoxLang runtime. It compiles BoxLang source code to a custom bytecode and executes it without any JVM required. MatchBox is ideal for environments where the JVM is unavailable, cold-start time matters, or binary size must be minimal.

MatchBox code is a strict subset of JVM BoxLang. Code written for MatchBox runs on JVM BoxLang, but not vice versa — some JVM-specific APIs are unavailable in MatchBox.

Installation

# Install via the official install script (macOS, Linux)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox/master/install/install.sh | bash

# Verify
matchbox --version