Mercury is a logic/functional programming language which combines the clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced static analysis and error detection features.
Its highly optimized execution algorithm delivers efficiency far in excess of existing logic programming systems, and close to conventional programming systems. Mercury addresses the problems of large-scale program development, allowing modularity, separate compilation, and numerous optimization/time trade-offs.
“Mercury is a general purpose language intended to support the creation of large, reliable and efficient applications.”
Latest News
20.01 beta release available
Beta versions of the upcoming 20.01 release are available on the downloads page.
10 January 2020musl libc support
Mercury now works with systems that use the musl C library.
09 January 2018Unsigned Integers
We have added a new builtin primitive type: uint. This type provides unsigned integers of the same size as Mercury's int type. The new type is available in the latest release of the day.
13 June 2017New Presentations
Paul Bone introduced Mercury in a presentation to the Melbourne Functional User Group. His slides are available on the Papers page. The slides from Paul's Ph.D. completion seminar have also been made available
07 April 2015Mercury 14.01.1 released
Release Information is available here.
08 September 2014
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