#language

Wiki 3

  • C3 Christoffer Lerno's C-tradition systems language; opinionated successor that's rethinking C's defaults from scratch
  • Rye Homoiconic general-purpose language in pure Go, designed to be embedded as a config or scripting layer with per-word capability registration
  • Zig Andrew Kelley's systems language; manual memory via arenas and allocators, no hidden allocations, comptime as the type-system programming mechanism

Toolbox 4

  • Dhall Typed, total configuration language with functions, imports and semantic hashes; emits YAML/JSON
  • tc-lang (Tig) Minimalist systems language transpiling to readable C11, with fat pointers, defer and errors
  • vera Language meant to be written by LLMs — no variable names, mandatory contracts, effect rows
  • XS (xslang) Language shipping compiler, JIT, LSP and full toolchain in one 2.9 MB binary across six backends