Hi HN,
I've been working on Jik, a statically typed programming language with region-based memory management,
which compiles to C.
The purpose of Jik is to try to answer the following question:
Is there a region-based memory management model which is simple enough to implement and ergonomic
enough for everyday use?
Here is a short example to give you a brief idea:
struct Person:
name: String
age: int
end
func make_person(name, age, r: Region) -> Person:
// trailing [r] means "allocate in region r"
return Person{name = name, age = age}[r]
end
func main():
// _ is reserved for the function's local region
p := make_person("Ana", 30, _)
println(p.name)
end
More on the memory model can be found in the docs:
https://github.com/jik-lang/jik/blob/main/docs/overview/08-m...Jik is in alpha, but it is usable enough to try out: https://codespaces.new/jik-lang/try-jik?quickstart=1
Any feedback, especially on Jik's memory management concept, is highly appreciated!
