Ecosystem

Mercury, like the other five Elements languages, comes with an extensive toolchain that takes care of all parts of your development process – from IDEs to work in, over the compiler and auxiliary build tasks, all the way to your final product.

It also integrates deeply with the existing ecosystem for whatever platform(s) you are targeting. For example:

• On Mac or iOS, you have full access to the entire range of Cocoa APIs. You can use .xib files, storyboards, asset catalogs etc. just as you would in Xcode.

• On Android and Java, Mercury seamlessly uses the platform tools for "dex'ing" your Java code or creating .apk files, and has support for pulling in external Gradle packages as you would expect.

• On .NET, you have full access to the framework library and third-party .dlls and libraries, and you can use NuGet packages to pull in code. You can target the full desktop .NET Framework, as well as .NET Core or Mono. And so on.

... and so on.

Pre-order

Get your copy of Mercury now. At a reduced price, you'll get immediate access to Mercury, including weekly new builds. (Mercury gets better every week!)

Once released, Mercury will be priced along the other Elements languages:

• Subscribe, $49 per developer per month
• Purchase yearly, $599 per developer, one year ($499 renewal)

Pre-order pricing: Get a fully supported license to Mercury, including immediate beta access, weekly new builds and active support via email and our RemObjects Talk forums:

• Subscribe, $39 per developer per month early bird forever!
• Purchase now, $399 per developer, one year ($499 renewal) early bird!
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Choosing the monthly $39 subscription will grandfather you in for the low introduction price indefinitely. Save $10 a month for the rest of your life!

Language Extensions

As part of the Elements family, Mercury automatically inherits a lot of additional special features, including but not limited to:

• Compiler based cross-project Obfuscation (no external obfuscation tool needed anymore)
• Aspect Oriented Programming (generate code from aspects)
• Duck Typing (convert types to other types that you normally could not)
• Soft interfaces (lets you use a type that does not implement an interface, but has the correct functions to be used as that interface)

...and so much more

While building Mercury, we are also looking at the VBLang community for historical requests, and see what we can add to our implementation. At this stage, we already implemented many existing requests, and have plans for many more.

You can read more about supported Language Extensions and VBLang Requests on our documentations site.

To stay in the loop, follow @VBMercury and @ElementsComp on Twitter.

And discuss Mercury in our Mercury forum on RemObjects Talk.

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