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@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ the language design decisions of the future. ``` func greeting(name:Text)->Text: - greeting := "hello {name}!" - words := greeting:split(" ") - return " ":join([w:capitalize() for w in words]) + greeting := "hello {name}!" + words := greeting:split(" ") + return " ":join([w:capitalize() for w in words]) func main(name="World"): - to_say := greeting(name) - say(to_say) + to_say := greeting(name) + say(to_say) ``` ```bash @@ -34,31 +34,34 @@ language features. - Extremely high performance code generation with minimal overhead compared to C - Extremely fast parallel compilation times - Language-level support for out-of-the-box function caching emphasizing - correctness + correctness - Structs with known-at-compile-time methods, not OOP objects with vtable - lookups + lookups ## Safety - Memory safety (garbage collection, compiler-enforced null safety, automatic - array bounds checking, and no uninitialized variables) + array bounds checking, and no uninitialized variables) - Arithmetic overflow checking - Type-safe strings representing different languages with automatic prevention - of code injection + of code injection - Pattern matching with exhaustiveness checking for tagged unions +- Efficient immutable datastructures ## Simplicity - Simple, low-boilerplate type system with type inference - Well-defined reference and value semantics and mutability rules +- No polymorphism, generics, or inheritance ## User-friendliness -- Useful and efficient built-in types: arrays, hash tables, structs, tagged - unions (sum types), cords (efficient string representation) +- Useful and efficient built-in types: arrays, hash tables, sets, structs, + tagged unions (sum types), cords (efficient string representation) +- String interpolation and debug printing builtins - Beautiful and helpful compiler and runtime error messages with emphasis on - user-friendliness + user-friendliness - Full UTF8 support for all text operations - Built-in doctests with syntax highlighting - Automatic command line argument parsing with type safety and no need for - libraries. + libraries. - Easy interoperability with C ## Dependencies @@ -66,9 +69,9 @@ language features. Tomo has a very small set of dependencies: - The [Boehm garbage collector](https://www.hboehm.info/gc/) for runtime - garbage collection. + garbage collection. - [libunistring](https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/) for unicode - string support. + string support. - [Binutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/) for stack traces. - a C compiler - and libc/libm, which should definitely already be installed. |