[Panzerschrek]

The author here.

Many here probably want to know if the language actually works as intended and solves problems mentioned in it's README. I can absolutely say yes, it works!

Since November 2025 I develop a project written (almost) fully in Ü. It's a video game. It's not finished yet, but I plan to release a mostly-working version in several months, including making its source code open. So, stay tuned.

I already have ~45000 lines of code in this project. All this is manually-written (no LLMs involved). Writing Ü is nice, and code mostly works if it compiles. No single time I needed finding/fixing memory-related issues (typical for languages like C++). No single time I faced a crash in random place, if something crashed, it was a safety check. The standard library covers basic needs. unsafe code is used only to interact with SDL2 and OpenGL functions.

I spend my time mostly developing this game project. But occasionally I fix bugs and make small improvements in the language itself. This explains why there are so little commits in last months compared to time before November 2025.

[ungut]

Why the nazi-esque "Frakturschrift" Logo? I get the font was not originally associated like that, but your name and that logo make me question what's behind it. I'm Austrian.

[Panzerschrek]

Such fonts were in use many centuries before NS time in many countries in north Europe. There were eventually replaced by modern ones, but in Germany they lasted long enough, until WWII. It's a common misconception, that only nazis used it. Even more, they forced replacement of fraktur fonts with modern ones. Nowadays such fonts are in use in places where an old-looking font is needed, like in signs. Also modern nazis use it sometimes, but only because they don't know history well.

I selected fraktur for a logo of my language because it looks "cool" and is already pretty stylized compared to a boring logo using some modern font. I don't insist to use it forever, maybe I will change it later with some better one, but for this someone else need to draw it properly, I don't have necessary design skills for this.

My nick-name is easy to explain. Many years ago I have enjoyed playing Wolfenstein and Call of Duty and these games have Panzerschreck as one of weapons. I choose this as my nick-name, but I unfortunately misspelled it.

[ungut]

You realize that the Panzerschreck was a weapon developed by the Nazis in WW2? Honestly this seems pretty irresponsible to me, but you do you