Drew DeVault announces a new systems programming language (name kept secret) that has been in development since December 2019, with a first release targeted for early 2022. The language features manual memory management, no runtime, C ABI compatibility, tagged union error handling, Unicode-aware strings, and memory-safe array/slice/pointer types. It currently targets Linux on x86_64 and aarch64, with plans to expand to BSDs, Haiku, Plan 9, and additional architectures. The project is seeking volunteer contributors, particularly for standard library development across areas including cryptography, networking, date/time, formats/encodings, and Unix support.
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