Cish
About
A minimal, performant, strongly-typed, and multi-paradigmn programming language focused on being practical and pragmatic, yet powerful enough to create readable, performant and concise code for any problem.
Features
- Super Performant
- Cish can be both interpreted and compiled.
- A strong, impeccable type system.
- Cish has actual strong typing, unlike c. Casts are made explicitly and it's not possible to have a binary operator have two different types for its operands.
- Type safe, runtime type-casting is supported when necessary.
- Powerful and expressive type arguments, not only for structs but for functions as well.
- Type arguments aren't constrained to be reference/allocation types like Java - they can also be primitives.
- Type parameters also support type requirements, somewhat like interfaces.
- Supports sum-types
- Clean error handling, unlike go. Requires succesful results to be unwrapped, providing a concise layer of error handling.
- Cish has actual strong typing, unlike c. Casts are made explicitly and it's not possible to have a binary operator have two different types for its operands.
- Support for first class functions.
- First class functions are inbuilt in the syntax and overall design as well - there isn't a million ways you can define a function.
- Structured programming, with some OOP features like inheritance.
- The linking process is done automatically - there's no need for C-like forward declarations.
- While casting is done automatically from derived types to their super type, downcasting is not allowed.
- Interoperability with other C and C#.
- See this related project for details.