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<p>Boo is a stablished object oriented statically typed programming language for <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BOO/Common+Language+Infrastructure" data-linked-resource-id="6096" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Common Language Infrastructure" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">.NET and Mono</a> (JVM support coming soon) with a <a href="http://www.python.org">python</a> inspired syntax and a special focus on metaprogramming through language and compiler extensibility features such as <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BOO/Syntactic+Macros" data-linked-resource-id="8555" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Syntactic Macros" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">macros</a> and <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BOO/Compiler+Steps" data-linked-resource-id="22833" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Compiler Steps" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">custom compilation pipelines</a>.</p><p>If you want to try boo, read the <a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BOO/Getting+Started" data-linked-resource-id="39128" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Getting Started" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Getting Started</a> guide. To dive deeper, follow the link to our <a href="https://github.com/bamboo/boo/wiki">new wiki at github</a> (old content still available <a href="http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=BOO">here at the codehaus wiki</a>).</p><h2>News</h2><p><img class="editor-inline-macro" src="/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro?definition=e2Jsb2ctcG9zdHM6M30&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2" data-macro-name="blog-posts" data-macro-default-parameter="3"></p><h3><a class="confluence-link confluence-userlink" data-username="bamboo" href="/display/~bamboo" data-linked-resource-id="5820" data-linked-resource-type="userinfo" username="bamboo" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Rodrigo B. de Oliveira" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Bamboo</a> would like to thank</h3><ul><li>Georges Benatti who always believed the idea, thanks man!</li><li>Carlinhos for always being there</li><li><a class="confluence-link confluence-userlink" data-username="cv" href="/display/~cv" data-linked-resource-id="603" data-linked-resource-type="userinfo" username="cv" data-linked-resource-default-alias="cv" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">cv</a> for being so enthusiastic and introducing the project to the hausmates</li><li>the hausmates for such a warm welcome and the great infrastructure</li><li>Terence Parr for the great <a href="http://www.antlr.org/">ANTLR tool</a> along with all the people who hang on the <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/antlr-interest">ANTLR group</a></li><li>The guys from the <a href="http://monobrasil.softwarelivre.org/">Mono Brasil project</a></li><li>Guido van Rossum for coming up with such a <a href="http://www.python.org">great language</a> that eventually served me as inspiration to start this project</li><li>The one who supported me all the way through this last 10 years: I love you, Ma!</li></ul>