Design Goals

The goals used to design Stab were as follows:

* The syntax should be readable without difficulties by Java/C# programmers
* The execution of a Stab program should be as efficient as the execution of the same program written in Java
* The generated bytecode should be usable transparently from Java
* The Java libraries should be usable from Stab programs without adaptations

Current State

All the features listed below are implemented and tested. The compiler is stable enough to compile its own source code (Stab is written 100% in Stab).
A beta version is available for download.

Features

This section presents an overview of the features found in the Stab language. Additional informations can be found here: StabLanguage.

JVM compatibility

Stab has almost all the features that can be found in Java:

* The same primitive types and operators with automatic boxing/unboxing
* Arrays, classes, interfaces, enums, constructors, fields and methods
* Methods with variable number of arguments
* C-like if/else, for, while, do, switch statements
* Exceptions handling with try/catch/finally and throw
* synchronized blocks and methods
* Compile-time generic programming including constraints and wildcards
* Annotations

Stab supports nested classes but not inner classes. To access a non-static member of an outer class, an explicit reference must be used.

Mikhas wrote:Bacana!

Alguns elementos da linguagem tem uma sintax estranha.
Vou tentar fazer um programa com isso ai