C3 lang – A modern C alternative – 0.6.3 released
Website & Docs: https://c3-lang.org/
Release notes: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8957-welcome_to_c3_version_0.6.3
What is C3? – An Evolution of C, with modern language Ergonomics, Safety, Seamless C interop all wrapped up in close to C syntax.
C3 Language Features:
- Ergonomics and Safety – with Optionals, defer, slices, foreach and contracts.
- Seamless C ABI integration, for full access to C and can use all advanced C3 features from C.
- Performance by default – with SIMD, memory allocators, zero overhead errors, inline ASM and LLVM backend.
- Modules are simple – with modules that are an encapsulated namespace.
- Generic code – with polymorphic modules, interfaces and compile time reflection.
- Macros without a PhD – code similar to normal functions, or do compile time code.
C3 FAQ:
- A comparison with other languages: https://c3-lang.org/faq/compare-languages
- Changes from C: https://c3-lang.org/faq/changesfromc
- Currently the standard library is actively being built, and is open to contributions. There is a libc module which allows accessing all of libc.
- There are C3 Libraries for: Raylib, SDL, Vulkan, OpenGL, Treesitter and Curl from: https://github.com/c3lang/vendor
Congratulations for the very hard work.
If you try it out and have questions, pop them below would be happy to help! Or pop onto the Discord if that's more your thing :)