Multi-Runtime

BoxLang can be deployed to multiple runtimes

BoxLang has been designed with a lightweight, fast, and modular core. The operating system binary is a whopping 8MB in size. This allows us to build on this binary according to the deployed runtime of choice. Check out our installation methods.

Available Runtimes

The currently available and in-development runtimes are the following:

Runtime	Description	Status
Android	Ability to run BoxLang in Android Devices	In Planning
AWS Lambda	Ability to run BoxLang with AWS Lambda	Done
Azure Functions	Ability to run BoxLang with Microsoft Functions	In Progress
CommandBox	A BoxLang engine for CommandBox	Done
Docker	BoxLang CLI, MIniServer and CommandBox images	Done
Dekstop	BoxLang native Desktop Applications	In Progress
DigitalOcean App Platform	DigitalOcean App Platform applications	Done
iOS	Ability to run BoxLang in iOS Devices	In Planning
Google Cloud Functions	Ability to run BoxLang with Google Cloud Functions	In Progress
JSR-223	Java scripting interfaces	Done
MiniServer	A pure Java webserver built with BoxLang	Done
Servlet WAR	A servlet capable war	Done
OS	Bare metal runtime for any OS Java runs in	Done
WebAssembly	Ability to run BoxLang as WebAssembly compiled code	In Planning

The core impetus of BoxLang is to grow through a hierarchical approach, targeting specific runtimes with specific behaviors. For example, the concepts of FORM, URL scope, web functions, and components are available only to runtimes that support web.

Just because a runtime isn't listed here doesn't mean BoxLang can't run on it. These are just a collection of officially supported runtimes. You can use the core runtime and run it anywhere the JVM can run. You can embed it now in Android, Azure, OpenWhisk, and more. However, once we have official runtimes, we will post them here.

All of our runtime source code can be found in our organization: https://github.com/ortus-boxlang

Third-Party Runtimes

We love our community. If you have created custom runtimes for BoxLang, please let us know, and we will add them here.