Goose: a heap-free systems language claiming to beat C++ and Rust on speed and memory
pbaylies · x · 2026-10-08
Developer wvo open-sourced Goose, a systems programming language with no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations. Every dynamic value lives inline on a compiler-managed data stack, freed when its scope ends. Its repo benchmarks claim it runs faster than C++ and safe Rust while using less memory, with C/Rust-familiar syntax aimed at tightly packed, pointer-free data structures. Repo: github.com/aardappel/goose (302 stars).
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