Release 14 of this language, Epoch, is now available.
In this release, I've focused on performance of the runtime system - specifically, 100% native code generation via LLVM. The language remains fully garbage collected and still manages to perform quite acceptably.
You can find out plenty of details on the language itself at the link above; but here's a quick taste of what it looks like:
fib : 0 -> 1
fib : 1 -> 1
fib : integer n -> integer f = fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
deep_thought : -> integer answer = 0
{
integer a = fib(5)
integer b = fib(8)
answer = a + b
}
entrypoint :
{
integer the_answer = deep_thought()
print(cast(string, the_answer))
}
