xlang

xlang is an experimental, garbage collected, dynamically-typed, interpreted programming language focused on performance.

note! xlang is in a pre-release state. It may not work and it may undergo serious breaking changes.

resources

• xlang docs

philosophy

• syntax, semantics and naming conventions should be consistent and obvious.
• there should only be one obvious way to do things.
• unsafety only occurs on the compiler side. The virtual machine should assume that any input program is valid, for the sake of performance.
• no "real" multithreading, only virtual processes. Only native functions are spawned in a different thread, to prevent halting the program.
• minimal implicit type conversions
• no weird or dumb syntax. Only syntax that makes sense and is easy to read.
• minimal breaking changes. Breaking changes past the pre-release state must be necessary.