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@@ -27,27 +27,35 @@ Hello John Doe! ## Features +### Performance - 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 +- Structs with known-at-compile-time methods, not OOP objects with vtable + lookups + +## Safety - Memory safety (garbage collection, compiler-enforced null safety, automatic array bounds checking, and no uninitialized variables) - Arithmetic overflow checking -- Simple, low-boilerplate type system with type inference -- Useful and efficient built-in types: arrays, hash tables, structs, tagged - unions (sum types), cords (efficient string representation) -- Well-defined reference and value semantics and mutability rules -- Language-level support for out-of-the-box function caching emphasizing - correctness - Type-safe strings representing different languages with automatic prevention of code injection -- Full UTF8 support for both source code and standard library - Pattern matching with exhaustiveness checking for tagged unions + +## Simplicity +- Simple, low-boilerplate type system with type inference +- Well-defined reference and value semantics and mutability rules + +## User-friendliness +- Useful and efficient built-in types: arrays, hash tables, structs, tagged + unions (sum types), cords (efficient string representation) - Beautiful and helpful compiler and runtime error messages with emphasis on user-friendliness -- Structs with known-at-compile-time methods, not OOP objects with vtable - lookups +- Full UTF8 support for all text operations - Built-in doctests with syntax highlighting -- Built-in type-safe command line argument parsing +- Automatic command line argument parsing with type safety and no need for + libraries. - Easy interoperability with C ## Dependencies |