Goose Programming Language Released: A Memory-Safe Systems Language with No Heap Allocation and No GC

Wouter van Oortmerssen has released the Goose programming language, a memory-safe systems language with no heap allocator, no garbage collection, and no lifetime annotations, open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. The author claims that across 16 benchmarks, Goose is 3.3 times faster than idiomatic C++, 1.16 times faster than hand-optimized C++, and 1.12 times faster than the best safe Rust, while using 1.9 times, 1.3 times, and 1.2 times less memory, respectively. The compiler is about thirty thousand lines of C++ and can output a single C file; the author states that the repository was almost entirely implemented with AI assistance.