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A walkthrough of the internals of the Carp compiler (blog.veitheller.de)
25 points by eriksvedang 3103 days ago
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A couple of useful links:

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

> Carp is a small programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations.

The key features of Carp are the following:

* Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM)

* Inferred static types for great speed and reliability

* Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood

* No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit

* Straightforward integration with existing C code

http://blog.veitheller.de/Carp.html, HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778530