Bender

Goals of Bender.

• Be Syntax compatible with Clojure.
• Compatible with clojure.core.
• Nimble startup times No JIT by default.
• Should be as fast or faster than Lua.
• To be Faster than Lua VM without JIT.
• Hinley Millner style Type Inference.
• Immutable Datastructures.
• Tail Call Optimisation.
• Lazy/Delayed Evaluation.
• Optional Types through meta data.
• Can be Compiled to Native Code.
• Interpreted while Development.
• Be linked with C/C++ Libs.
• Use efficient GC.
• Designed with Game Development in Mind.
• Cross Platform on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, AppleTV, and Switch.
• Should use the smallest JIT available. AsmJIT, GccJit.
• To be faster than Chez by a Factor of 3 Atleast.
• Ease of use over dogma and tradition.
• Profiler and Database for type detection.
• Favour easier funtion names over Std Lib Dogma.
• Ease of Use above Performance and Performance above backward compatibility.
• Erlang Styled concurrency.
• Use ML to detect types.
• Automatic and deterministic memory management (Optional garbage collector and VM)
• Inferred static types for speed.
• Rust Styled Optional Borrowed Ownership.
• Logic Progrming Features compatible with Shen https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html
• No hidden performance penalties – allocation and copying are explicit
• Straightforward integration with existing C code
• Lisp macros, compile time scripting and a helpful REPL
• Threads and atomic references.
• Asynchronous programming (i.e. promises & futures).
• Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
• Software-Transactional Memory (STM).
• The actor model.
• Multi Platform (JVM, CLR, Neko VM)