Goose language's data stack memory safety and performance benchmarks
What happened
On October 25, Hacker News' front page covered Goose, a systems programming language. It carries dynamic data on a compiler-managed data stack, giving memory safety without a heap allocator, garbage collection or lifetime annotations. On performance, the project reports across 16 benchmarks that its clang backend runs 3.54x faster than idiomatic C++, 1.26x faster than hand-optimized C++ and 1.19x faster than the best safe Rust. The coverage also notes limits: arrays of variable-size elements cannot be indexed directly, and escaping closures are not supported.
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- Hacker News front pageThe Goose Programming Language
Goose 是一种内存安全的系统编程语言，无堆分配器、GC 或生命周期标注，动态数据由编译器管理的数据栈承载。项目在 16 项基准中报告，clang 后端相对惯用 C++、手工优化 C++ 和最佳安全 Rust 的速度分别为 3.54x、1.26x 和 1.19x，但可变大小元素数组不能直接索引，也不支持逃逸闭包。
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