andersonarc / carbonsteel

Programming language with C-like syntax and new, improved features

Carbonsteel

Programming language transpiler designed to fix existing issues and introduce new features without changing the old-style C syntax.

Overview

Differences from C

• #include changed to import
• typedef struct X X changed to type X
• typedef enum X X changed to enum X
• typedef A B changed to alias B = A

Actually, there are more, but they aren't listed yet.

Features

• Auto-generated inline constructors for every type
• Auto-generated headers for each source file
• More strict type checking
• Interoperability with C using the import native statement
• Generic types

Planned features

• Generic methods
• Safer unions
• Expression statements x = if (a) b else c instead of conditional expressions x = a ? b : c
• Auto-generated free() statements for allocated memory
• Support for C type qualifiers such as static, extern, inline

Building Carbonsteel

See BUILD.md.