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Dynamic Modular Productive

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A modern, dynamically and loosely typed scripting language for multiple runtimes.

For the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) giving you tons of Object-Oriented (OO), Functional Programming (FP) Constructs, and dynamic Metadata Programming (MP)

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Quick Installer Mac/*Unix

You can also run this script to install BoxLang in your Mac or *nix.

install BoxLang in your Mac or *nix.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/ortussolutions/boxlang/install-boxlang.sh)"

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/ortussolutions/boxlang/install-boxlang.sh)"

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Runtime

You can easily start up a server with CommandBox 
Install commandbox-boxlang
server start cfengine=boxlang javaVersion=openjdk21_jdk

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Boxlang by Ortus Solutions

BoxLang was created and is maintained by Ortus Solutions, Corp.

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Frequently asked questions

BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language that can be deployed on multiple platforms: all operating systems, web servers, Java application servers, AWS lambda, iOS, android, web assembly, and more.

BoxLang combines many features from different programming languages, including Java, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP, to provide developers with a modern, fluent and expressive syntax. BoxLang has been designed to be a highly modular and dynamic language to take advantage of all the modern features of the JVM.

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Yes, BoxLang is free open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. We encourage and support community contributions.

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BoxLang is a professional open-source product. Different types of support channels depend on your level of support when you purchase a + subscription.

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BoxLang supports a dual parser and compiler that can execute ColdFusion/CFML code natively (maybe more languages later). This means that you can run all your ColdFusion applications within BoxLang natively. We also provide tooling to automatically transpile your ColdFusion code to BoxLang as well.

There are cases where specific Adobe or Lucee functionality might not exist in BoxLang. However, BoxLang is built modularly and these missing features can be created and supported via our BoxLang+ subscriptions.

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We don't look at cores, memory, where it's deployed, how you use it, or even how much money you make. We care that this language exists, that it can be maintained, and that it can power your applications.

  • BoxLang is an open-source programming language licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, which means it is free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.
  • BoxLang+ is our commercial version which offers support and enterprise features. Our licensing model is based on being fair and following the golden rule: Do to others as you want them to do to you.

    Every BoxLang+ subscription covers a single production server on a physical or virtual machine or cloud lambdas. Every development usage is included for FREE. Every non-production instance is included at 50% of the regular price. You can have as many instances of the language running on each machine. If you are using lambdas, we just require 1 license, and you can run as many lambdas as you want.

very subscription is used to maintain and further extend the language. Your support matters to this project.

FREEDOM TO SCALE!

BoxLang is an open source platform that allows you to deploy an unlimited number of containers for free.

If you need support for your container deployments, you can use BoxLang+. It is licensed on a per-orchestrator-node basis, regardless of the orchestrator you use. You only need to license the nodes, no matter whether you want to deploy 1000000 containers on three or ten nodes. You have the freedom to decide how many containers you want to deploy on each orchestrator node.

Development nodes are always free, while non-production nodes are available at 50% of the regular price.